Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | On Villa-Flotilla you have a chance to meet your companions in the first week . |
2 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
3 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
4 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
5 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
6 | With exquisite logic , Sonic Boom is on the panel , a man who could n't stop talking , I 'm sure , if he could be bothered to open his mouth in the first place . |
7 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
8 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
9 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
10 | Their most expensive signing , £2.5million striker Ian Wright , sat on the bench for the opening game with a thigh strain , and turned his ankle in the first minute when coming on . |
11 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
12 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
13 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
14 | The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy . |
15 | Edwards , who played on despite breaking his nose in the first half , insisted : ‘ Widnes created as many chances as we did , but we were a little more clinical in our finishing . |
16 | All I want is the truth , the real reason why you decided to come here , why you suggested that we try to ease our differences in the first place . ’ |
17 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
18 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
19 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
20 | JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER and PHILIP ROBINSON continue their series in the first of two articles on breeding Central American Cichlids . |
21 | I told Bates straight out that I was the only man who had the vision and know-how to keep his club in the First Division and that for a reasonable salary , say 16K a year , I would be willing to quit Athletico . |
22 | Ade pulled his hamstring in the first round . |
23 | Eoin Jess broke his ankle in the first meeting of the clubs and the cup draw was followed by a damaging share of the points between Aberdeen and Falkirk at Pittodrie in the Premier Division championship . |
24 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
25 | In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility . |
26 | From continually chasing my tail in the first month and being late for everything , and always being in trouble in varying degrees , punctuality became second nature . |
27 | Some others , however , like the earl of Sandwich , sent their sons in the first instance to the local grammar school . |
28 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
29 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
30 | ‘ I will never forget our victory in the first French Test , ’ he added . |