Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 2 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 3 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 4 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 5 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 6 | If the decision is made to stop then the first step is to advise your customer 's buyer of the situation promptly . |
| 7 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 8 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 9 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 10 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 11 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 12 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 13 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 14 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 15 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 16 | Being a firm believer in the ‘ start 'em young ’ policy but desperate for any player I can get to fill out the first team , I have completely overhauled the youth squad . |
| 17 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 18 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 19 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 20 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 21 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 22 | And then Adam had read aloud the first definition : |