Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 2 | I was very nervous when I went to meet Mr Wogan for the first time but the gentleman who drove the big car to the show was very nice and friendly . |
| 3 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 4 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 5 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 6 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 7 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |