Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 2 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 3 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 4 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 5 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |
| 6 | Eva was too busy concentrating on the first foothold to wonder what she had done with it . |
| 7 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 8 | One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised . |
| 9 | In the course of twenty-five years of persistent pioneering work , he was responsible for novel design features , such as the duplex condenser ( 1924 ) , objective changer ( 1926 ) , and cone condenser ( 1930 ) , the last allowing for the first time ultraviolet , dark-ground photographs of viruses . |