Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 2 | ‘ He just could be Ángel 's father , ’ he added , gathering up his things and starting back down the slope , scree-walking very fast over the first long patch of loose grey stones , swinging his pack , and the empty sleeve flapping against his hip . |
| 3 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 4 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 5 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 6 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 7 | Paper and packaging group Bunzl added a penny to 145p after the group pushed profits strongly ahead in the first six months of the year . |
| 8 | Paper and packaging group Bunzl added a penny to 144p after the group pushed profits strongly ahead in the first six months of the year . |
| 9 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 10 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 11 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 12 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |