Example sentences of "having [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 2 | I remember the feeling of joy on having my first cartoon accepted . |
| 3 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 4 | erm She 's having her first race tonight erm under her latest a newish trainer , Bernie Doyle , he 's doing ever so well , his kennel 's really in form erm so I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy to win erm first time erm at the track tonight , that 's the third leg . |
| 5 | This can occur with the mare having her first foal . |
| 6 | ‘ … while there 's a slight question mark over Shine On 's ability to stay this distance and of course it 's a big test for his rider Kitty Connor , who 's having her first ride in a listed race . |
| 7 | ‘ A very nervous poodle having her first puppies , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | A fifteen-year-old girl having her first baby is twice as likely to live at the poverty level than a nineteen-year-old first-time mother . |
| 9 | Then she was having her first baby . |
| 10 | So taboos may exist which prohibit social intercourse between a man and a young girl having her first menstruation , or between females and a young male who has just reached puberty , because there is strong unconscious , or even conscious , desire to have sexual relations with the girls or boys ( incest ) . |
| 11 | A young farmer 's wife having her first batch of butter er rejected . |
| 12 | JAPAN 'S young women , like their sisters in other rich countries before them , are now marrying later , putting off having their first child longer and then choosing to have fewer children in all . |
| 13 | For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 . |
| 14 | Aldershot 's defence were as square and ragged as a new intake of squaddies having their first stab at the right dress , the gifts they distributed coming like manna from heaven to a team who had managed just two goals in their first nine games . |
| 15 | This year 's centenary is obviously being planned with special care but the Meet breaks with tradition by having its first lady as President — long-serving member Joan Church . |
| 16 | The recently-opened London office of the New York gallery Daedalus Ancient Art is having its first show in the premises of Rupert Wace Ancient Art , at 107 Jermyn Street , St James 's . |
| 17 | But she remembers the Co-op having its first shop just , still in High street , but half way down , but then they had this prime position right on the corner , you know and it was a marvellous , a good Co-op I always thought . |
| 18 | Steve Cauthen will be having his first race-ride on Arazi , but Pat Valenzuela , who rode Arazi in the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile , is scheduled to be reunited with the colt in the Kentucky Derby next month . |
| 19 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 20 | The main danger to The Thinker must be Playschool , but he is having his first race since breaking down at Cheltenham in November , 1988 . |
| 21 | The main danger to The Thinker must be Playschool , but he is having his first race since breaking down at Cheltenham in November , 1988 . |
| 22 | Steve Cauthen , having his first race ride on Arazi yesterday , described him as a suitable type for Epsom . |
| 23 | Kinane , who was having his first Arc ride , said : ‘ I had quickened past Behera when Carroll House hung across and it did n't affect the result . |
| 24 | Others were on the edge of the storm and Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had a wild ride with young Sub-Lieutenant White , who was having his first introduction to canoe reconnaissance . |
| 25 | She 's having our first baby in a couple of weeks and she 's gone to stay with her mother in York . |
| 26 | The peaks are arranging things on the phone without help ; having your first conversation with a taxi driver ; getting the point of a newspaper story without looking in the dictionary ; realising how bad the dubbing on an English language film is ; catching the mood of a Chekov story ; best of all , making friends with people who do not speak English . |
| 27 | PERHAPS IT IS SOME NEW Nineties landmark on the fame ladder : having your first OD'd-on-heroin rumour . |