Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 4 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 5 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 6 | Can it be all together coincidence those names , places and events that made the headlines during the First World War have done so again in recent years ? |
| 7 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 8 | There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse . |
| 9 | Swindon Town against Newcastle United … the battle of the giants … the County Ground was bursting with its biggest crowd in years to see the gladiators of the first division … |
| 10 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 11 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 12 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 13 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 14 | In slow , careful English , she asked the gentlemen at the first table , ‘ You are ready to order ? ’ |
| 15 | The SPA on Sept. 14 announced the names of the first 20 state-owned companies to be fully privatized . |
| 16 | By the time I reached the road the medics were bringing the casualties to the First Aid post . |
| 17 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 18 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 20 | The Asunción treaty committed the participants to a first tariff cut , of 47 per cent , in June 1991 , following ratification of the treaty by the member countries ' parliaments . |
| 21 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 22 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 23 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
| 24 | Among our three countries , only Malaysia has enjoyed the effects of the first : during the latter half of the 1980s , its real effective exchange rate dropped by 36 per cent . |
| 25 | It was a dark house , Mary Rose thought , climbing the stairs to the first floor . |
| 26 | She instructed Nina to radio for the county ambulance before climbing the stairs to the first floor of the jig and following the foreman along the boards for about twenty yards until they were able to see the injured man . |
| 27 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 28 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 29 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 30 | A second special law , to remedy the defects of the first , was passed in 1984 ( no. 798 , 29 November ) , setting up the Consorzio Venezia Nuova to study and deal with problems connected with the physical protection of Venice . |