Example sentences of "been [verb] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many graduates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement period . |
| 2 | Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement . |
| 3 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 4 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 5 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 6 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 7 | Though she was passing through what has been called her first industrial revolution , there was as yet little to show for it in the landscape . |
| 8 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |
| 9 | But by then Virgin and the Sex Pistols had been denied their first ever number one single . |