Example sentences of "took [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the 1992 intake of new MPs took their first tentative steps round Westminster on Monday morning , the place was in turmoil . |
| 2 | Like Dorothy teetering in her ruby slippers on the brink of the Yellow Brick Road , young Kylie took her first tentative steps towards stardom . |
| 3 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 4 | On the Thursday , on a cool , damp evening , Sebastian Coe took his first major 800 metres title , followed home by Tom McKean and Steve Cram . |
| 5 | Sture Sivertsen , of Norway , took his first major individual title by pipping Vladimir Smirnov , of Kazakhastan , by 3.9sec in the 10km cross-country race at the World Nordic Championships , in Falun , Sweden , yesterday . |
| 6 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 7 | He took his first permanent job with Metropolitan Vickers now part of GEC , broadly working in personnel , overseas recruitment and welfare before joining the University of Stirling in October 1969 as Careers and Appointments Officer . |
| 8 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 9 | He then took his first head chef position for the opening of Brian Turner 's restaurant in 1986 . |
| 10 | There is also the village of Ackworth , where Geoff Boycott took his first faltering steps at the crease to become the greatest cricketer that the world has ever seen and a great Yorkshireman . |