Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 2 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 3 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 4 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
| 5 | The impression given by de la Broquière of the Mufti as a chiefly religious figure is strengthened by the only two known incidents in which one of the first three " traditional " Muftis was actively involved in his capacity as Mufti , namely Fahreddin Acemi 's rout of the Hurufis and his taking the chief seat in the debate on both of which incidents find parallels in the careers of later Muftis . |
| 6 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 7 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 8 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 9 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 10 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 11 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 12 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 13 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 14 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
| 15 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |