Example sentences of "their first real " in BNC.

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1 Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days .
2 While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success .
3 Meryl remembered her face from previous meetings , but this was their first real contact .
4 These were of immense consequence in giving elected Indian officials their first real taste of power , and in encouraging them to ask for more — much more , needless to say , than Curtis had either foreseen or intended .
5 And it 's at school that many gifted children — and their parents — encounter their first real obstacles .
6 Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking .
7 She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least .
8 In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two .
9 Their first real test by the unions was the 12-week national steel strike , commencing January 1980 .
10 His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be .
11 I think it marks the beginning of the United States their first real world power .
12 Manager Lennie Lawrence said Portsmouth faced their first real test after knocking out Third Division Leyton Orient and Exeter .
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