Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 2 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 3 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 4 | If I did n't feel that way , I would n't have wanted to get involved in the first place . |
| 5 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 6 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 7 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 8 | Nothing had gone wrong with the first two pregnancies . |
| 9 | I ca n't undersa I ca n't understand how comes she 's got involved with the first ma guy to come along ? |