Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 2 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 3 | If I had read a dozen Somerset Maugham books about colonial clubs in remote settlements , I could n't have bettered my first impression of Tala-Tala 's Union Jack Club . |
| 4 | I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The quantity and variety of reading and writing , the mathematical ideas and vocabulary , the competence shown by many children in instrumental music , physical education , art and light crafts would have amazed my first class of children , and their teachers too . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 8 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 9 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 10 | At 5.45 pm Gower pulled Mushtaq for two and England had won their first Test against Pakistan for 10 years , and levelled the series , with one to play . |
| 11 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 12 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 13 | He had just caught his first glimpse of Thorsbury Manor . |
| 14 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 15 | I hope you 've enjoyed your first visit to Vi An , " said the plantation director with a forced affability . |
| 16 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 17 | By then the Goulds had received their first batch of letters . |
| 18 | Yesterday the ten-minute Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) was overwhelmingly given its First Reading with a majority of 200 , with all-party support . |
| 19 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 20 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 21 | She hurried out of the room , before the astonished Victorine had completed her first sentence of protest . |
| 22 | Julie , 23 , pictured , who lives in Mossley Hill but is originally from Sunderland , has just completed her first year at Alsop Wilkinson after law studies at Birmingham Polytechnic and Chester Law School . |
| 23 | The band , whose ‘ Silverfish With Scrambled Eggs ’ single stormed the Indie Top 20 in March , have completed their first album for the Creation label . |
| 24 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 25 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has received its first order from South Africa : the South African Weather Bureau in Pretoria wants a Cray Y-MP2E supercomputer . |
| 26 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 27 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
| 28 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 29 | Two movements of the Mass in C minor were also given their first hearing in Salzburg cathedral , probably with Constanze singing the soprano part . |
| 30 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |