Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [noun] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 2 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 3 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 4 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 5 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 6 | These will allow Chinese enterprises independent decision-making powers for the first time and allow them to compete with each other in the marketplace . |
| 7 | Soldiers will be allowed to abandon their jackets in the summer for the first time and wear an almond-green shirt with epaulettes . |
| 8 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 9 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 10 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 11 | For this method use an unlabelled antibody as the first layer and proceed as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above . |
| 12 | Students are not given chances to cheat , disappearing after the first registration and retain personal contact with their teachers every day . ’ |
| 13 | I tie my next colour on to the tail end of the first yarn and pull it straight through . |
| 14 | Copy the last sentence of the first paragraph and insert it as a separate paragraph at the end of the task , one clear line space below the paragraph starting ‘ NOISE … ‘ |
| 15 | As you replace the second piece , note which needles hold which horizontal band of the first piece and make sure the bands of the second piece are put on exactly the same needles . |
| 16 | Start with a single piece of dried food as a first course and offer nothing more until it is consumed . |
| 17 | So let's start with the first mouthful and work our way down the whole digestive tract , to explain fully the marvellous benefits of this new slimming method . |
| 18 | ‘ Then when we get into the First Division and do n't need Aussie players , the English guys will bring other English mates and the crowd problem is solved . ’ |
| 19 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 20 | With the first section , take your one pair in the first column and link it with any two brackets of three from the second column to give you your best eight selections . |
| 21 | So what we , we need to go to him I think in the first instance and say we want to do X Y and Z , and if he , if he says fine you know . |
| 22 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 23 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 24 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 25 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 26 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 27 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 28 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 29 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 30 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |