Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the first few " in BNC.

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1 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
2 Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days .
3 Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there .
4 Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months .
5 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
6 Do n't overdo it in the first few days .
7 In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then …
8 The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes .
9 They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours .
10 This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development .
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