Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 3 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 4 | On Villa-Flotilla you have a chance to meet your companions in the first week . |
| 5 | In the meantime , feast your diaries on the first instalment . |
| 6 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 7 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 8 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 9 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 10 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 11 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 12 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 13 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 14 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 15 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 16 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 17 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 18 | A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time . |
| 19 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 20 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 21 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars . |
| 24 | The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight . |
| 25 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 28 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 29 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 30 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |