Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 2 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 3 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 4 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 5 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 6 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 7 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 8 | It will return tomorrow with the first in the annual series of company performance league tables . |
| 9 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 10 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 11 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 12 | ESSEX champions Braintree 's challenge for promotion to the East Super League started well in the first of three play-off matches against Pelicans , from King 's Lynn . |
| 13 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 14 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 15 | It is to be regretted that teachers dwell disproportionately on the first of these conventional classroom for the sake of a permanent record . |
| 16 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 17 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 18 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 19 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 20 | Where we 'll , where we 'll most probably get knocked out in the first round right . |
| 21 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 22 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 23 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 24 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 25 | The second shape comes out of the first like the extension of an igloo . |
| 26 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |