Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mark Williams Co of Northbrook , Illinois bills the 4.0 release of its Coherent Unixalike as the answer to an impecunious Unix-lover 's prayer , describing it as the first inexpensive , easy-to-use , 32-bit clone of Unix and ‘ smaller , faster , and less expensive than any other Unix operating system for the Personal Computer ’ . |
| 32 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 33 | Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’ |
| 34 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 35 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 36 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 37 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 38 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 39 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 40 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 41 | He opened his mouth as in a dream , shaping it around the first barbaric syllable . |
| 42 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 43 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 44 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 45 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |
| 46 | Two factors affect it in the first four years . |
| 47 | To them I was just another recruit , and if I did well , got myself through the first six months and became a legionnaire , then I would matter to them because I would be part of their system . |
| 48 | In 1896 the fourth Congress resolved itself into the first National Council with a permanent staff and offices , at first in Birmingham and then in the Congregationalists ' London headquarters , Memorial Hall . |
| 49 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 50 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |
| 51 | A pleasant 15-minute walk brings you to the first two faces , which contain dozens of routes at VS to E1 . |
| 52 | These divisions establish themselves in the first five years or so of our lives . |