Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 2 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life . |
| 5 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 9 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 10 | So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years . |
| 11 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 12 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 13 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 14 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 15 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 16 | Finally , in Fig. 2 a we plot with higher time resolution the residuals obtained from all our observations in the first 15 days after the glitch ; as in Fig. 1 c , the effects of the increased slowdown rate and the 265-day component have been removed . |
| 17 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
| 18 | Because of high setting-up charges , you will get little or nothing if you surrender your policy in the first two or three years . |
| 19 | ‘ I will never forget our victory in the first French Test , ’ he added . |