Example sentences of "and their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 2 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 3 | Diabetic subjects and their first degree relatives form a suitable population in which to examine the relation between birth weight and the development of impaired glucose tolerance and non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 4 | After the divorce he married her again under his real name at St. Mildred 's , Bread Street , London and their first child , Sophia , was born in July 1792 . |
| 5 | The miniaturist John Hoskins the Younger married Grace Beaumont in February 1669/70 and their first child , a boy , was born in 1670/71 . |
| 6 | They were married in 1985 and their first child , Katie , was born last year . |
| 7 | She and her husband have only recently moved into their marital home and their first child is due at Christmas , but they do n't even know where they 'll be living this time next week . |
| 8 | Each child cradled a doll dressed in red and their first song was a lullaby , arranged by John , called Mamma 's Babee . |
| 9 | My parents were collectors of contemporary art and their first holiday after the war was spent in St Ives visiting artists like Barbara Hepworth , Terry Frost and Denis Mitchell . |
| 10 | From northern Europe the routes into Central Switzerland , both road and rail , come via either Basel or Zurich and their first lakeside destinations are either in the neighbourhood of Luzern or in that of Brunnen . |
| 11 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 12 | Fewer infants in the regulated group required high inspired oxygen concentrations , their median supplemental oxygen dependence time was shorter , and their first day arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios were more favourable . |
| 13 | But UUUC voters were not so persuaded and their first preference votes varied from 2,609 for McNarry ( Un ) to 11,958 for Craig ( VUPP ) . |
| 14 | However the agency says they 'd always intended to make a radical redistribution of wealth between fathers and their first families . |
| 15 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 16 | And while we 're talking about the man 's divine right to know , little babies are born knowing all they need to know about love : they 're unselfconscious , they can communicate , and their first experience — sucking — is a sensual one ! |
| 17 | Five out of 18 ( 28% ) drug users were admitted to hospital with bacterial pneumonia in the four to six months between their last visit at which they were HIV negative and their first visit when they were HIV positive . |
| 18 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
| 19 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |
| 20 | Belle followed later with their daughter Muriel and their first son , Samuel , known as Toy ; the younger children were born in Johannesburg . |
| 21 | They lacked adventure and their first corner came in the 75th minute . |