Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 2 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 3 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 4 | ‘ We gave two stupid free kicks away in the first half and did n't clear them at all . |
| 5 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 6 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 7 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 8 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 9 | The game was settled with two quick goals midway through the first half.Liz Hannam reports . |
| 10 | Ironically , only three weeks earlier in the first event of the season , Laurette Maritz , from Johannesburg , had won the Marbella Open at Los Naranjos . |
| 11 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 12 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 13 | Were all these studs about before the First Wor before the Second World War ? |
| 14 | It is complemented by a number of other professional studies both in the first two years , e.g. Mathematics , Environmental Studies , Science , P.E . |
| 15 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 16 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 17 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 18 | Now , twelve years later in the first province-wide ‘ beauty show ’ , the majority of Ulster unionists chose Ian Paisley as their spokesman . |
| 19 | Newcastle , nine points ahead in the First Division , let Gascoigne go to Spurs for £2 million and Terry Venables has first option on him should he wish to return to England . |
| 20 | Newcastle , nine points ahead in the First Division , let Gascoigne go to Spurs for £2m . |
| 21 | Boro were eight points behind after the first six seats and 12 in arrears two races later . |
| 22 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 23 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 24 | ‘ We all have our own ways out of the first forest , ’ Harry said . |
| 25 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 26 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 27 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 28 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 29 | Our report this year covers four matters though to the first there 's really only passing reference . |
| 30 | We were perhaps closest in the two winters immediately after the first rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 , when we both signed to play for Western Province while serving our Test bans . |