Example sentences of "'s first [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to Robbie 's surprise , Fen 's first choice was the local church . |
| 2 | Edison 's first machine was the ‘ tinfoil phonograph ’ ( 1 ) , in which sound waves at the mouthpiece vibrated a diaphragm , and created undulations in a stretched layer of tinfoil wrapped round a cylindrical drum . |
| 3 | Karajan 's first success was the 1946 Vienna Philharmonic recording of Beethoven 's Eighth Symphony . |
| 4 | While the first words most small children say are ‘ Mummy ’ , ‘ Daddy ’ and ‘ me want ’ , Graham Harrison 's first utterance was the word ‘ scratch ’ . |
| 5 | The party 's first object was the prosecution of the war , and this could be linked convincingly enough with attacks on malingerers and deserters ; long after 1902 Unionists had continued to revile radical Liberals ( including Lloyd George ) as pro-Boers , and this view was easily adaptable to the Labour party in the new war . |