Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 2 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 3 | That chapter ends with the calming of the storm where the first hint of ‘ failure ’ on the part of the disciples is found . |
| 4 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 5 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 6 | To some extent , it was a repetition of the atmosphere early in the war when the first president , Bani Sadr , was at odds with many other senior figures and the clergy in general . |
| 7 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 8 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 9 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 10 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
| 11 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |