Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adv] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 2 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 3 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 4 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 5 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 6 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 7 | Dating to the later first century , it later provided a foundation for at least one substantial masonry building . |
| 8 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 9 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 10 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 11 | The contempt , the disdain he 's shown from the very first moment . |
| 12 | Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course . |
| 13 | → Well , when I replied to the very first letter criticising Eric 's apparent tonal excesses , I mentioned the differences that we 've all heard between one Marshall , or Boogie , or Strat , or Les Paul from the next . |
| 14 | Monday arrived , as we set out we had two major obstacles to overcome , firstly not getting lost in Budapest ( which we achieved for the very first time ) and secondly getting through the border between Hungary and Romania . |
| 15 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
| 16 | ‘ A little bit of it was brought into the very first episode , the pilot , where I was allowed to play her slightly weird . |
| 17 | This word spirit appears in the very first verse of the Bible , where it states that the Earth was without form and void . |
| 18 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 19 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 20 | As a school involved in the very first year of the project , School A provides an opportunity to observe a school 's involvement in Stage 3 of the project ; that is to say , the development of INSET provision , the further development of library facilities and curriculum innovation , and other by-products of the project . |
| 21 | They 'd struck on the very first day . |
| 22 | [ more calmly ] I am now convinced that nothing but religious considerations and a resolution to watch over the very first appearances of evil can be of sufficient weight to keep steady to his good purpose a vain young man . |
| 23 | Attempts to show human face of the hunt falls at the very first hurdle . |
| 24 | Like y'know we we 've mentioned organisational structure I think in the very first lecture er that idea , the idea that you 've got a kind of box at the top labelled president and you 've got two boxes underneath labelled vice president and you 've got y'know one box goes off to sales manager y'know the sort of thing I mean , okay ? |
| 25 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 26 | In its original form my article on Syllabubs appeared in the very first number of Nova , in March 1965 . |
| 27 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 28 | The grooves were U-bottomed with a radius of precisely 4.7 thousandths of an inch , and his reproducers were fitted with the very first diamond styli , of exactly this size for minimum wear and surface-noise . |
| 29 | Jim Hacker , said in the very first edition of Yes Minister : ‘ Open government is a contradiction in terms . |
| 30 | you know , we would li I do n't mind people being in it , but I 'd rather , you know , can you imagine that er the Greek priest we had in the very first print |