Example sentences of "[adj] and first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1955 , when he was 12 years old and first picked up the bag , Dave has had plenty of chance to come up against those two impostors . |
| 2 | Hostilities however were in abeyance during arrival at the racecourse , disrobing , hair-tidying and first drinks . |
| 3 | Junior and first line managers tended to be provided for locally by health authority specialists and/or local colleges . |
| 4 | You see traditionally people used to think of an evaluation as something that was very convergent and first people gathered lots of evidence , and then they wrote a set of recommendations or conclusions , and you were supposed to agree them or follow them afterwards . |
| 5 | The ropes should be around three to four feet long and first get your helper to tie it around your wrists . |
| 6 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 7 | Twelve doctors , 150 First Aid workers and 18 ambulances will also be in attendance at over 60 medical and first aid posts . |
| 8 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 9 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
| 10 | We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds , carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible . |