Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 2 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 3 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 4 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 5 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 7 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 8 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 9 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 10 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 11 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 12 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 13 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 14 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |
| 15 | This pantomime went on happily until the first week of May , when Mrs Puri appeared one morning unannounced at our door , intent on doing a spot-check of her property . |
| 16 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 17 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 18 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 19 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 20 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 21 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 22 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 23 | This section provides a step-by-step guide for users setting up Offline for the first time . |
| 24 | ‘ But that is not to say I am going to rush back there at the first opportunity . ’ |
| 25 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |