Example sentences of "[verb] at the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity .
2 Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) .
3 Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 .
4 This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas .
5 Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play .
6 The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss .
7 Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open .
8 Now if you look at the first four figures there , does anybody want to have a guess at what those first four figures mean ?
9 Do the new words figure in exercises ? 13 Look at the first two lessons for phonological features .
10 On the way in we look at the first five tables — if we do n't spot anyone , if we do n't get told about anything happening , we politely disappear after 20 minutes or so . ’
11 you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's
12 Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House .
13 This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 .
14 This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 .
15 Performed at the First International Piano Festival in Oviedo , Spain in January 1992 .
16 A model for achieving a smoke free generation in Europe was proposed at the first European conference on tobacco in 1988 and was supported by the World Health Organisation and British Medical Association .
17 In spite of the weather conditions 50 bands , travelled to compete at the first outdoor competition of the new season .
18 The dangers of hepatitis B infection were discussed at the First International Congress on Occupational Health for Healthcare Workers , which was held in Freiburg , Germany in September.The Congress was organised by the International Commission on Occupational Health ( ICOH ) and the Freiburg Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine ( FFAS ) .
19 The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole .
20 Torrance won at the first extra hole , the 450-yards 18th , to collect £83,330 in prize money and go top of the European Money List .
21 One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century .
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