Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 2 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
| 3 | Ramblers , weeping standards — which are for the most part rambler types budded into tall standard stems — climbers , climbing sports and several species types all fall largely within the first category , but so often have peculiarities of their own that we should not generalize . |
| 4 | They were in control from start to finish , with Don Caskie scoring the first try midway through the first half . |
| 5 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |