Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 2 | To many geographers the general statistical tendencies revealed above do not explain anything , and the use of industrial structure in this context is seen only as a first step in the analysis of spatial change . |
| 3 | Reversion to order can occur ; systems do not necessarily get progressively more disordered as one goes further beyond a first instability . |
| 4 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
| 5 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 6 | The staircase sweeps up to a first floor balcony connecting four bedrooms , most with en suite bathrooms . |
| 7 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 8 | He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season . |
| 9 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |