Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) .
2 ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’
3 How much did we buy Kerslake for in the first place ?
4 Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order .
5 And apparently the firm that she ordered the thing from in the first place had been er , re-set up .
6 It will also integrate the operations of Archive faster than planned , completing the effort by within the first half of 1993 .
7 We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided .
8 The collection ranges in date from before the first Pharaoh ( c. 3500 BC ) to objects produced during the Roman domination of Egypt in the early centuries AD .
9 These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man .
10 What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band .
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