Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 2 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 3 | My problem , as you call it , is that he was 19 and serving his first year in the Light Infantry , in the Bogside of Londonderry , and the weapon that shot him dead was an MI6 high-velocity rifle , product of America , put into the hands of those scum by scum in America protected by American judges . ’ |
| 4 | They are 60 today and celebrating their first birthday together in more than 30 years . |
| 5 | John soon made a niche for himself in Palace 's defence , making his debut at home to Bristol Rovers ( 1–0 ) the day after his signature had been obtained , and scoring his first goal for us in the 8–2 FA Cup demolition of Harwich and Parkstone three weeks later . |
| 6 | Nor were matters helped by Violet gaining ten ‘ A's in her O levels , losing a stone and getting her first boyfriend , who rang her constantly at all hours of the night from Beverly Hills . |
| 7 | ‘ She is 12-years-old now and expecting her first foal . |
| 8 | Name the American , a former Wimbledon Champion , new retired from competitive play and expecting her first child , who is one of the company 's longest serving contract players ? |
| 9 | It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 . |
| 10 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 11 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We were preparing for what we thought might be our future and so we got back to the people who 'd singled us out , and a guy called Keith Wilson , who was eventually responsible for recording and co-producing our first Fleetwood Mac album , got us down and we put an album out , which kind of came and went . |
| 13 | Aline was now off nights , on holiday , and spending her first week with her grandparents in Cornwall before flying to join her parents in Majorca for the two following weeks . |
| 14 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |