Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season .
2 It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said .
3 Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear .
4 One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) .
5 On Villa-Flotilla you have a chance to meet your companions in the first week .
6 in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable
7 In the meantime , feast your diaries on the first instalment .
8 Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively .
9 Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month .
10 Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop .
11 Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like .
12 Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead .
13 In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time .
14 Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ?
15 After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways .
16 She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white .
17 Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 .
18 When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel .
19 The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : .
20 A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time .
21 Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share .
22 Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life .
23 Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games .
24 ‘ What I do n't understand , ’ I said harshly , and in an attempt to steer the conversation away from compliments , ‘ is why you give the twins enough money to buy themselves drugs in the first place . ’
25 Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat .
26 Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars .
27 The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight .
28 In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium .
29 All I want is the truth , the real reason why you decided to come here , why you suggested that we try to ease our differences in the first place . ’
30 Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period .
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