Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 2 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 3 | General enquiries should be addressed to CFSU in the first instance . |
| 4 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 5 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 6 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |
| 7 | Dealers and artists complain now , but it should be remembered that they were happy to sell to Saatchi in the first place , and doubtless reaped the benefit of having placed work by their artists in such a prestigious collection in terms of increased prices . |
| 8 | Paul , when he 's writing to Timothy in the first letter , and in chapter one and in verse fifteen , the great apostle Paul ! |
| 9 | First though I want to see what help and advice it is possible to give to teachers in the first two groups : we will focus on the ‘ destressers ’ in this chapter , and on the ‘ change agents ’ in the next . |
| 10 | THE town of Albert was reduced to rubble in the First World War and rebuilt in the 1920s . |
| 11 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 12 | During the school year 1990–1 , further developments are to take place : pupils at a new Key Stage ( 2 ) are to be introduced to the three core subjects ; a new subject ( design and technology ) is to be introduced to pupils in the first three key stages ; and for the first time , pupils ( at Key Stage 1 ) are to face assessment . |
| 13 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 14 | But losses leapt to £5.5m in the first half of 1989 . |
| 15 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 16 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 17 | He also sees that the Western-led coalition can not ensure peace or a new order because it ‘ is not willing to address ’ the very factors such as dictatorship and maldistribution of wealth and power which led to war in the first place . |
| 18 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 19 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's the reason we went to LA in the first place , to be perfectly honest . |
| 21 | These observations are converted to probabilities just as the weather data were converted to probabilities in the first example . |
| 22 | The Croats first settled in their present homeland in the seventh century and were converted to Christianity in the first half of the ninth century , shortly after they accepted the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor , Charlemagne , in 803 . |
| 23 | Erm , now can you tell me about how you how you decided to actually , you know why you decided to actually go to Spain in the first place ? |
| 24 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 25 | Mr Pilling says there will be an investigation into how Murray came to be sent to Springhill in the first place . |
| 26 | United were blown to bits in the first half , as Portsmouth roared into a 3-goal lead . |
| 27 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 28 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |
| 29 | BAD debts at Southern Water more than doubled to £2.7m in the first six months to end-September , when profits rose 8% to Pounds 60m . |
| 30 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |