Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 2 | She looked very tired : there were puffy smudges around her eyes , and bracketing her mouth were tiny lines like the first cracks in plaster . |
| 3 | The metropolitan areas in England were contested on party lines from the first elections in 1973 . |
| 4 | After the first splendid burst , from The Time Machine to The First Men in the Moon , the quality deteriorates . |
| 5 | The foundation of the first colonies in the New World , on the east coast . |
| 6 | Troops and tanks were sent in to restore order a week after the first demonstrations in Tirana . |
| 7 | The British Army aid convoy has arrived safely in Central Bosnia with the first supplies in the region for a month . |
| 8 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 9 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 10 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 11 | The first of them is an appeal by the first defendants in the present action ( ‘ the appellants ’ ) against an order made by Judge Stockdale , sitting at the Watford County Court on 2 August 1991 , committing each appellant to prison for a term of four months by reason of their contempt . |