Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 2 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 3 | If two neutral events of the same class are used , the second one interferes with learning about the first . |
| 4 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 5 | J.S. When someone who has cancer is finally dying , that 's one thing , but many families go into mourning at the first diagnosis as a form of disavowing their own pain and fears . |
| 6 | In two respects , it is open to the courts to insist that the constable 's decision must be a reasonable one ; there must first be reasonable grounds on which the constable is entitled to rely in deciding in the first place whether or not a breach of the peace is likely to occur . |
| 7 | The instruments that would be needed for communicating echo pictures are no more sophisticated than the instruments that both bats and dolphins already have for echolocating in the first place . |
| 8 | Tit for Tat begins by cooperating on the first move and thereafter simply copies the previous move of the other player . |