Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 2 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 3 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 4 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 5 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 6 | the more people we get on the first pass the better , so we do n't have to re ] excavate to make a connection at a later date . |
| 7 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |
| 8 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 9 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 10 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 11 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 12 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 13 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 14 | Do whatever you like , I 'm not saying go out and buy War and Peace , because you know , if you do n't , if you 're not into the habit of reading , you pick up War and Peace , and by the time you get through the first page , you say who are all these people ? |
| 15 | So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot . |
| 16 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |