Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 2 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |
| 4 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 5 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 6 | Still adhering to the old fashioned measurement by piece ( a cask which in Champagne contains 205 litres ) , the 2,666 litres of must , as it comes through the pressing operation , is separated into three portions in order of quality : the cuvée , which amounts to the first ten pieces ( 2,050 litres ) ; the premiere taille , which includes the next two pieces ( 410 litres ) ; and the deuxième taille , or the last piece ( 205 litres ) . |
| 7 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 8 | When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces . |
| 9 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 10 | When they are known , then unc which follow from the first two of Equations ( 1 ) . |
| 11 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 12 | Those who rebled within the first five days were then treated by further sclerotherapy and were randomised if and when they were free of bleeding for this period of time . |
| 13 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 14 | Now if you look at the first four figures there , does anybody want to have a guess at what those first four figures mean ? |
| 15 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 16 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 17 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 18 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
| 19 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 20 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 21 | World football 's ruling body were asked to unravel the case of Spartak Moscow 's Mikhail Rusayev , who appeared in the first two rounds of the Cup Winners ' Cup , including the 6-2 aggregate win over Liverpool , without compulsory international clearance . |
| 22 | On the way in we look at the first five tables — if we do n't spot anyone , if we do n't get told about anything happening , we politely disappear after 20 minutes or so . ’ |
| 23 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 24 | The first is his education : we find in the first two books of The Prelude those experiences which Wordsworth regarded as formative . |
| 25 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 26 | If we win without it , we come in the first five that 's all well and good . |
| 27 | But , although the common ground is large and includes almost everything said in the first eight chapters about how to fill in the framework and conduct the disputes , unity then becomes too much for us . |
| 28 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 29 | They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more . |
| 30 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |