Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 2 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 3 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 4 | The Indian economy was made to contribute heavily during the First World War , including a gift payment of £100 million . |
| 5 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 6 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 7 | I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’ |
| 8 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 9 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 10 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 11 | Countries opting for soft membership would have to put up with the first , and find substitutes for the second — for instance , by setting ( and hitting ) targets for money-GDP , using both fiscal and monetary policies . |
| 12 | The period of time when acceptance becomes possible seems to link in with the first anniversary of events . |
| 13 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 14 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 15 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 16 | for learning to gallop on in the first size |
| 17 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 18 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 19 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 20 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 21 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
| 22 | UK Life operations continued to perform well in the first three months of the year . |
| 23 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 24 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 25 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 26 | In families where the mother tended to intervene often in the first observation period , the children did have longer quarrels and more frequent physical fights in the second observation period ( six months later ) than in families where she intervened less . |
| 27 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 28 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |