Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 2 | this afternoon , thank you , and your raffles now , er Mrs on the pink you 've got the first one love , give it to Mabel |
| 3 | It contained representatives of more than 20 political parties who had contested the first free multiparty elections in Romania since 1937 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 4 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 5 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 6 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 7 | Martin Norris and ‘ Mack ’ Edwards replied for West Meon who had to play the first 40 minutes with only ten men . |
| 8 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
| 9 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 10 | We therefore apply ( 2 ) with unc This gives for the solution of ( 2 ) unc Since the columns and rows are arbitrary to a scalar multiplier , we may now write unc ( for simplicity of exposition we have multiplied the first column on the right by 3 ) . |
| 11 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 12 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 13 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 14 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 15 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 16 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 17 | The ‘ Second ’ Prokofiev Sonata comes first on the disc — in its original guide as a flute sonata it dies predate the First Sonata — and it is here that Hardy and Devos really distinguish themselves . |
| 18 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 19 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | This followed my 1981 legislation which had introduced the first road-safety measures for fifteen years and was used ( as I knew it would be ) to introduce compulsory seat-belts . |
| 21 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 22 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 23 | For the journey we have selected the first class MS Caledonian Star , a perfect ship for such a journey , carrying a maximum of 150 passengers in absolute comfort — all cabins are outside with private facilities , one sitting restaurant , lounges and bars , lecture theatre and large sun decks with a swimming pool . |
| 24 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 25 | Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book . |
| 26 | This extended a nice Martian strain in the script , examining how Hampstead life might look to a spectator who had missed the first two acts . |
| 27 | The energetic soldiers who had survived the first war were in active command , but there was a great residue of staff officers from the first war who did not fight , who determined the spirit of the administration . |
| 28 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 29 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |