Example sentences of "[pron] first professional " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was my first professional association with Chapman , but I already knew him . |
| 2 | The Cure are pop 's truest Lost Boys , still — 14 years after their first professional recording — bravely confronting the desires and dilemmas of sensitive adolescence . |
| 3 | Tonight we pay tribute in the Guinness Spot to the wealth of jazz talent emanating from Northern Ireland in a reunion between two old friends who performed their first professional engagement together . |
| 4 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 5 | As a child of 11 , she had one which featured with her in her first professional engagement , as Dorothy in The Wiz , the all-black version of The Wizard of Oz , at the Sheffield Crucible . |
| 6 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 7 | Her first professional appearance at the Liverpool Playhouse in A Midsummer Night 's Dream — reflecting her classical training . |
| 8 | Her first professional appearance was in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , with whom she stayed for two years before returning home to use her classically trained talents in summer stock productions of Bye , Bye , Birdie ; Fiorello ; and Blossom Time . |
| 9 | Jennifer , whose meteoric career has earned more than £5 million , burst on the scene reaching the final of her first professional tournament aged just 13 . |
| 10 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |
| 11 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 12 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 13 | The players were Tony Cox on drums , Rick Wakeman on mellotron and Herbie Flowers on bass , who I learned recently , was paid £7.10 for that session , which was his first professional session . |
| 14 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 15 | John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act . |
| 16 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 17 | CHRIS SMALL grabbed his first professional title and a Pounds 3,000 winner 's cheque with an incredible 9–1 win last night against world No 13 Alan McManus in the £25,000 Benson & Hedges Championship in Glasgow . |
| 18 | His first musical experience was as a member of a school tin whistle band ( ‘ no drums , no guitars , nothin' , just melody , melody , melody ’ ) ; his first professional job was as singer with an Irish pop showband called The Arrows and his first solo album was produced by controversial avant-garde composer Philip Glass . |
| 19 | Theatre became his first professional ground-base : writing for , appearing in and directing productions for a wide number of companies , including the celebrated York Repertory Group . |
| 20 | Harbour was extremely nervous , this being his first professional engagement , and equally determined to seize his chance . |
| 21 | Englishman Wayne Stephens gained his first professional victory in the Nigerian Open , the first event of the new season 's Challenge Tour . |
| 22 | His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . |
| 23 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |
| 24 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |
| 25 | Falconer had experience as a full back with Aberdeen , his first professional club . |
| 26 | Leading scorer Paul Wilkinson expects a tough match against his first professional club . |
| 27 | He totalled 98 on his first professional outing , which included a 10 at the eleventh . |
| 28 | This week , his first professional work goes on display at Manchester 's Opera House with his £300,000 designs for the Birmingham Royal Ballet 's Romeo and Juliet . |