Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 2 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 3 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 4 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 5 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 6 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 7 | Of course Joy had n't the first idea what it was . |
| 8 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 9 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 10 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 11 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 12 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 13 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 14 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 15 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 16 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 17 | ITV is involved in a race with the BBC to bring out the first film drama of his life . |
| 18 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 19 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 20 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 22 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 24 | And then Jayne filled in the first day . |
| 25 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 26 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 27 | Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia . |
| 28 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 29 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 30 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |