Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigation team considered that this fault reoccurred and that this may have account for the aircraft making its first approach toward the built-up area of Basle to the east of the airport . |
| 2 | The opening men 's event in Valloire saw France 's Franck Piccard winning his first race on home snow while Kronberger stormed ahead with two wins at Valzoldana . |
| 3 | Although Karbacher 's best results have come on clay , he still threatens to give Agassi playing his first match in Halle , Germany , today after eight weeks out of action with a wrist injury a rough ride . |
| 4 | After three consecutive games without a win Aberdeen boss Willie Miller brought back Gary Smith , Lee Richardson and Brian Grant , with Grant making his first appearance since the opening day of the season . |
| 5 | I remember Lily playing her first solo on a flat-sounding descant recorder made by Dolmetsch and bought for her by her father . |
| 6 | But United … with midfielder Jim Magilton making his first appearance of the season … should be too strong . |
| 7 | A young farmer 's wife having her first batch of butter er rejected . |
| 8 | It 's meant to help customers plotting their first move into client/server . |
| 9 | The highlight of the match was a brilliant Mickey Weir hat-trick , with Keith Wright notching two and Steven Tweed grabbing his first goal with a brilliant strike . |
| 10 | Last week 's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , in Canada , people are this month receiving their first taste of subscription TV . |
| 12 | Even Johnson ( 1982 ) , who untypically devotes a whole chapter to Japan 's ‘ developmental state ’ , changes to ‘ government ’ on the page following his first mention of the ‘ state ’ . |
| 13 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 14 | DEWI Morris is one of 14 Lions playing their first match of the New Zealand tour , against North Harbour in Auckland tomorrow , un |
| 15 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech for a bride enjoying her first marriage to a divorced man . ) |
| 16 | Willis quotes a toolmaker describing his first day at work : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The battle for middle-order supremacy resulted in David Lloyd , Finchley moving into second place after a 3–0 victory over Connaught Club , London , and Ealing producing their first win of the season with a 2–1 home victory against Walton Astro 's . |
| 19 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 20 | These can offer real support to new actors seeking their first taste of work and such co-ops do show enormous interest in the work of drama students in their last term . |
| 21 | The two British participants are Barry Flanagan , who is showing two hessian sculptures , and Richard Long , prominently included by an early sculpture of three stone rings and a selection of photographs documenting his first walks in England and abroad . |
| 22 | ABOVE : Edwards ( Northcliffe Newspapers ) and BELOW : Ian Evans scoring his first goal for the Palace in spite of the attentions of the Grimsby Town defenders . |
| 23 | From somewhere Fergal had got hold of a bottle of hooch , and the three eldest sat round the kitchen table getting their first taste of hard liquor , and smoking their way through a packet of Camel cigarettes , while Ellie and Patsy , locked into the room with them , were forced to watch . |
| 24 | To 1967 , I 'd add another year , an equivalent point of take-off — 1979 ( punk energy making its first altercations with black dance production , dub and funk , its first trysts with electronics , its first stabs at multi-media performance ) . |
| 25 | The combination of a massively-expanded market for Ecstasy and a shortage of supply has led to Ketamine making its first appearance on the British black market . |