Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 2 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 3 | I went in the first on the right and closed the door . |
| 4 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 5 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 6 | 2.05:TOP weight Bradbury Star , who fell at the first in this race last year , has an excellent chance to gain compensation . |
| 7 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 8 | Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber . |
| 9 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 10 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 11 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 12 | Here we focus on the first of these . |
| 13 | As the curtain rises on the interior of The Boar ( Act One , scene two ) we embark on the first of four scenes in which Britten frames a rapidly foward-moving dramatic action with elements of an abstract and self-generating musical form . |
| 14 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 15 | If we decided through the first of these two methods , which begins with moral assessment of each individual 's record one by one , that each shareholder was indeed responsible for a share of the loss , then we might well report our conclusion in the language of personification . |
| 16 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 17 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 18 | On Tuesday , they embark on the first of their midweek league fixtures , at home to Alresford with a 6 p.m. kick-off . |
| 19 | ‘ They talked about the first of May , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 21 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
| 23 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 24 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 25 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 26 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 27 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 28 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 29 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |