Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 2 | It 's a pretty filthy day again today Mick , it 's er it 's raining , it 's windy , it 's cold , it 's the middle of November , it 's gon na cost er the supporters a bit to come tonight , er only two and half thousand came to the first game , how anxious are you that County 's supporters come out in their numbers this evening ? |
| 3 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 4 | The list of styles now available contains all those defined for the first document , ready for use in the current document . |
| 5 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |
| 6 | Since the total number of crossings , 5 is odd , unc has the determinant -1 ; accordingly unc unc unc Coincidentally , this example also illustrates he second variant : it is adventitious that the largest element among those available occurs in the first , second , third and fourth column in succession . |
| 7 | The mayor , the mayoress and an obscure royal rode in the first sleek open limousine . |