Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 2 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 3 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 4 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 6 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 7 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 8 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 9 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 10 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 11 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 12 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 13 | Trim the top large piece on one side so that it slopes to join with the first small piece , and trim the very top small piece in the same way . |
| 14 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 15 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 16 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 17 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 18 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 19 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 21 | The tendency of moral philosophers , thinks Moore , is to rush into the third question , without having dealt with the first two . |
| 22 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 23 | I would n't go shopping for the first few weeks . |
| 24 | Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House . |
| 25 | Soon after your arrival you 're interviewed and put on what 's called ‘ house assessment ’ — house cleaning for the first five weeks — whilst the screws work out what would be the best work for you . |
| 26 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 27 | It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair . |
| 28 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |
| 29 | ( June 22-July 23 ) Although Jupiter is now sparkling away in your own birth sign and you in turn should feel decidedly more buoyant or optimistic , unfortunately , the atmosphere at home is likely to remain strained during the first few days of the month . |
| 30 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |