Example sentences of "had [vb pp] their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then the Goulds had received their first batch of letters . |
| 2 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 3 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 4 | At 5.45 pm Gower pulled Mushtaq for two and England had won their first Test against Pakistan for 10 years , and levelled the series , with one to play . |
| 5 | One per cent of the sample had puffed their first fag by the age of four , but the bulk of experimentation is carried out by 9–12 year olds . |
| 6 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 7 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 8 | They had made their first venture into the quicksand that Vietnam was to become . |
| 9 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 10 | They had bought their first house and were expecting their first baby . |
| 11 | However , also in 1964 , China announced that it had exploded their first nuclear device , and that caused worldwide concern , particularly to their close neighbours , the U.S.S.R. |
| 12 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 13 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 14 | New South Wales had declared their first innings after scoring a mammoth 473–5 . |
| 15 | It was by then already obvious that the schools had overcome their first reservations er about what the scheme had to offer and it was so obvious that they deserved recognition for their efforts that it led to my colleagues , Councillor and putting down the motion to Council in April of this year , drawing attention to the continuing success in schools throughout the district of the Local Management initiative . |
| 16 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 17 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 18 | It was from the card inside that she had learned their first names : Teodor and Sophie . |
| 19 | But after they had lost their first five wickets with only 134 on the board , Rutherford and Blain swung the balance back in their favour in the last 45 minutes , adding 34 runs to take their side agonisingly close to squaring the series after a humiliating innings and 60-run defeat in Christchurch . |
| 20 | Almost half the girls married in their teens and who were occupying council houses in their mid-20s had conceived their first birth before marriage ( 47 per cent ) , compared to 30 per cent of owner-occupiers , 14 per cent renting privately , and 9 per cent who were still living with parents ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
| 21 | The British had reserved their first great station gestures for the interior of the subcontinent . |
| 22 | None had spent less than nine years in Jamaica before leaving , so that all had learnt their first language there . |