Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow the road for a third of a mile to the first stile on the left . |
| 2 | Or perhaps for a return to the first Great Awakening of the eighteenth century , when Jonathan Edwards thundered against the evils of the age . |
| 3 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 4 | The parliamentary council plan is supported in a confidential SNP document calling for a demonstration — larger than the European summit protest by 25,000 people — in April as a forerunner to the first sitting of a ‘ recalled ’ Scottish parliament . |
| 5 | We would ride about a mile to the first field then we would draw the first field . |
| 6 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 7 | In a speech to the first extraordinary congress in its 69-year history of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , held in the capital Ulan Bator on April 10-13 , general-secretary Gombojavyn Ochirbat called on the estimated 926 delegates to acknowledge the party 's previous mistakes and the shortcomings of its leadership which , he stated , had been " crucial in plunging society into its present crisis " [ see pp. 37317-18 for details and consequences of March unrest ] . |
| 8 | Littered with service slang ( luckily a listing of ‘ slang ’ definitions is included to enable the ordinary reader to cope with the stories ) the book follows the author from erk to NCO and from life on a troopship to the first 1,000 bomber raid . |
| 9 | In Oscar Chinn Judge Schucking thought that parties to a treaty which had placed restrictions upon conflicting treaties concluded by less than the full complement of parties to the former treaty , could regard as invalid a subsequent treaty concluded by a minority to the first treaty . |