Example sentences of "get [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell .
2 I got my first borstal when I was about eighteen for assault on another girl .
3 That 's when I got my first big shock of the night for the caller was none other than Danny himself !
4 GEENA DAVIS got her first acting break — by posing in a shop window .
5 After 240 years , the Jockey Club has just got its first chief executive .
6 In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him .
7 It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac .
8 LONDON MARKET GETS ITS FIRST VIRTUAL REALITY PLAY AS DIVISION PREPARES TO GO PUBLIC VIA PLACING
9 IAN BOTHAM and son Liam create cricket history 60 miles apart today — for while Ian runs out at Trent Bridge for his 114th one-day international appearance , son Liam gets his first one-day England call at Oundle School , Peterborough .
10 Eleven-year-old Macaulay gets his first on-screen smacker from child co-star Anna Chlumsky .
11 Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 .
12 Yugoslavia was now set to get its first non-communist President when Mesic took over from the Serb Borisav Jovic in May 1991 , in accordance with the rotation sequence .
13 Meanwhile , Relcom users are to get their first international on-line service .
14 Last month it was announced that Britain will get its first new-wave trams in 1991 .
15 Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson condemned the new rule that will get its first major exposure in this country .
16 NEXT YEAR London will get its first radio-controlled buses .
17 Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties .
18 Ray , 12 , from West Vale , won an audition to get his first big acting role playing Jason 's young son in a new BBC play , The Bullion Boys .
19 ‘ When we got our first serious analysis from the system in January 1992 , there was a minor panic at the amount of sick days reported , although it was not quite so bad when we analysed the figures further and found that one employee 's long-term sickness was affecting the averages .
20 Was it when we got our first important jobs and started the expense-account lunch routine ?
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