Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 2 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 3 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 4 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 5 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 6 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 7 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 8 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 9 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 10 | YET he was caught completely unawares as the first recipient of the Barclay 's Eagle Trophy and a £1,000 cheque . |
| 11 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 12 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 13 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 14 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 15 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 16 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 17 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 18 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 19 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 20 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 22 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 23 | Coton twice saved almost miraculously in the first half when both Pearson and Hirst were frustrated by the woodwork as Wednesday 's mixture of pace , strength and rapid teamwork overwhelmed the visitors . |
| 24 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 25 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 27 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 28 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 29 | She acts particularly well in the first scene |
| 30 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |