Example sentences of "in [pron] first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't since the way Lou Gent fought against me in my first title defence . ’ |
| 3 | On the hustings in my first election campaign in February 1974 , the casualty list among officers of my association consisted of one broken nose , two black eyes and the lady chairman drenched by a bucket of water , which the candidate had ducked . |
| 4 | My time was slow ( 10.14 ) , but on the other hand I had run fourth in my first World Championship . |
| 5 | ‘ I have about 22 in my first team squad and that 's too many , ’ said the Middlesbrough boss . |
| 6 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 7 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 8 | Bombay boys Kambli , Amre and Sachin Tendulkar totalled 359 runs between them in their first Test appearances on their home ground . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , in an unprecedented climbdown the Football League yesterday agreed to Bristol City 's demand for a change of referee in their First Division game at Watford on December 5 . |
| 10 | ( Incidentally , a comment in the Promontoire hut book by the last British party to note their presence a year ago recorded laconically , the rewards for following Brailsford and Collomb in their first choice route to the hut up a series of Grade II chimneys : the last pitch is the drain for the outside toilet ! ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Middlesbrough will be at home to Edinburgh Monarchs tonight in their first Gold Cup fixture of the season . |
| 12 | another of our teams on the wrong end of the result this weekend … were Gloucester … they went and lost to London Scottish in their first league match of the season … the score eight-three |
| 13 | With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend . |
| 14 | The Crues made a positive step towards making the second stage of the TNT Gold Cup with a 3– win over Omagh Town in their first group match on Saturday . |
| 15 | They competed in their first World Championship race at Monaco but had to wait until Froilan Gonzalez ( Arg ) triumphed in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone a year later for their first World Championship success . |
| 16 | Only twelve seconds of Crawford 's newly found skill was seen in this racy film and , incidentally , one of the two female water-skiers glimpsed in the same scene was Charlotte Rampling in her first film role . |
| 17 | At Flowers East , Alison Watt is showing nude portraits , some of which are self-portraits , and smaller head studies ( to 18 April ) in her first gallery exhibition since her impressive debut at the Scottish Gallery in 1990 . |
| 18 | FIERY actress Tatum O'Neal is to star as a killer in her first TV series since splitting with tennis ace John McEnroe . |
| 19 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 20 | Liz Taylor in her FIRST wedding dress ; a 42 year old picture no-one was aware existed . |
| 21 | In real life Britt is starring in her first pantomime role as the Genie in Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome . |
| 22 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 23 | In its first year Eurosport has enjoyed access to live transmissions of the athletics , motorcycling and Formula One Grand Prix circuits and acres of European football , an advantage which British Satellite Broadcasting , the ‘ squarial ’ company hoping to transmit next year , claims is unfair . |
| 24 | In its first year Dagenham produced 25,571 cars and trucks but as Ford 's presence in the UK grew , extension after extension was tacked on to the plant to accomodate tractor and commercial vehicle production , new foundries , paint shops , furnaces and export packing plants . |
| 25 | In its first year turnover was a modest forty thousand pounds , it 's now twelve million . |
| 26 | IT WAS in December last year that American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT&T ) put in its first takeover bid for NCR , an American computer-maker . |
| 27 | Gerhard Mans ( above ) has been the driving force behind Namibia 's emergence as a force in the fifteen-a-side game , captaining Namibia in its first Currie Cup dame and to its first win over a ‘ Big Eight ’ nation ( Ireland ) . |
| 28 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 30 | Hampshire offspinner Shaun Udal took 8 for 50 against Sussex in his first Championship match for two years |