Example sentences of "it [verb] its first " in BNC.

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1 The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 .
2 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
3 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
4 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
5 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
6 It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 .
7 Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 .
8 Note the loss of the thumb on the hand of this kind of monkey and how it uses its first or index finger to grip items of food .
9 A bootstrap operation , it attracted its first venture capital in August of 1990 , a $1.2m investment from Sunwestern Investment Group .
10 It says its first and second priorities are both Intel .
11 That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars .
12 The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south .
13 The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) .
14 started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export .
15 When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community .
16 SunSoft last week released what it considers its first applications package , a search and retrieval system called SearchIt based on Fulcrum 's Ful/Text engine with a Sun-added front-end plus NFS and client/server capabilities .
17 It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism .
18 Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
19 Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics .
20 ( 4.1 ) unc Otherwise it runs its first argument until that terminates and then runs the rest in sequence .
21 It held its first meeting on Dec. 23 , and unanimously chose Chief Ernest Adegunle Shonekan , a lawyer and prominent industrialist , as its chair and effectively acting Prime Minister .
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