Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first .
2 We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing .
3 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 .
4 ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’
5 Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement .
6 Well I went back up to the first one and I said you need three one hundred and twenties to get to three hundred and sixty so
7 But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil .
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