Example sentences of "had [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its tunnels were almost big enough for me to go down , and sticking my head down one , I had my first smell of badger — and , of course , completely ruined my chance of seeing any animals that day . |
| 2 | During this time I had my first experience with a knitting machine . |
| 3 | When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines . |
| 4 | Six years ago , I had my first child with no complications . |
| 5 | Six years ago , I had my first child with no complications . |
| 6 | far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work |
| 7 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 8 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 9 | In October last year I had my first lesson in a Cessna 152 with , the school 's senior instructor , and immediately caught the bug . |
| 10 | By the end of that day I had my first shots of a mink family in action . |
| 11 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 12 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
| 13 | It was then I had my first taste of prison . |
| 14 | Speaking of television , I had my first taste of the magic box in that hospital . |
| 15 | I had my first glimpse of the sea on a Sunday School outing to Redcar when I was about ten . |
| 16 | I had my first client within days , an old lady who wanted her ceiling painted and the walls papered . |
| 17 | Leeds was the first city I had ever visited and when I was taken by car to the television studios I had my first encounter with revolving doors , which I found rather strange . |
| 18 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
| 19 | I had my first dog for 18 months and have had my second one for 3½ years . ’ |
| 20 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 21 | During a naval review off Portsmouth in October 1955 , British naval intelligence had their first sight of the new , post-war Russian Navy when the heavy cruiser Sverdlov arrived to take part . |
| 22 | And you realize that maybe they made love first time to What Do You Want , they had their first kid to Poor Me , they they bought their first house to Someone Else 's Baby , I mean there 's fantastic memories , and that carries o , and I carry all that now . |
| 23 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 24 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 25 | For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) . |
| 26 | Many of the would-be hotshots who entered Birmingham competed in the super division ( E5+ leaders ) , while many less experienced and often very young climbers had their first taste of competition or even indoor leading in division one ( E2-E4 ) and division two ( E2 and below ) . |
| 27 | The group reformed and had their first exhibition in 1949 . |
| 28 | Brides with husbands in social class I had their first baby on average thirty-two months after marriage in 1971 , but waited a full year later ( to forty-four months ) in 1979 , a delay of 38 per cent ( table 4.11 ) . |
| 29 | However , the group which had their first babies between 1950 and 1954 had a median of 9.7 years before they returned to paid employment . |
| 30 | When it obtained the Royal Assent , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 had expanded to 173 Sections and sixteen schedules , half as long again as the Bill which had its First Reading in November 1986 , allowing for the separate provisions of the 1987 Act . |