Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest of these postscripts to survive dates from the day after their departure on the first trip ( 12 ) . |
| 2 | We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us . |
| 3 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 4 | This had forced general managers of the second wave into the reactive mould characteristic of their predecessors in the first wave . |
| 5 | From April 1992 , there has been a tax concession on both college fees and the cost of study material which leads to Vocational Qualifications , consequently those financing themselves on HCIMA programmes do not have to pay the tax element of their fees in the first place . |
| 6 | Treaty , I can deal relatively briefly with the question of their compatibility with the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 8 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 9 | At the sixth meeting members agreed that ‘ as a result of their examination of the first six courses they had established certain standards for assessment and were now able to make an objective judgment upon the courses submitted ’ . |
| 10 | For nearly 70 minutes , Ireland were in contention , but their inability to convert pressure into points when playing with the wind behind their backs in the first half cost them dearly in the end . |
| 11 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 12 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 13 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 14 | It is expressed in their myth of the first human child , or " adam " . |
| 15 | They gave away very little about themselves in their choice of the first Christmas presents . |
| 16 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 17 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 18 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 19 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 20 | It will trace the roots of nationalist sentiments from their beginnings during the First World War , through to the election of the first national government in the history of the islands , the Peoples Nationalist Movement , in 1956 . |
| 21 | PRINCESS Diana 's two young sons are to spend Christmas Day without their mother for the first time in their lives . |
| 22 | They were directed back to their positions by the first assistant and his megaphone , and a second take began ; Miranda was now able to make some sketches of the action as well , as she knew its shape . |
| 23 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 24 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 25 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 26 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |
| 27 | Albion were on their guard from the first minute when Steve Guppy curled a shot into keeper Stuart Naylor 's body . |
| 28 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 29 | and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so . |
| 30 | Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels . |