Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 2 | She stepped carefully from her platform to the first foothold and put her hand in his . |
| 3 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |
| 4 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 5 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 6 | A moving spectator caught her eye as she swung and she hooked into sand on her way to the first of three successive bogeys . |
| 7 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |