Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had problems in the first half against Scotland . |
| 2 | In the first experiment our source is a not very accurate gun which sprays bullets onto the first screen . |
| 3 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 4 | The software included a second k-D matrix which recorded errors in the first matrix . |
| 5 | This issue figured strongly in the election campaign , and appeared to benefit the Centre Party , which won seats for the first time . |
| 6 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 7 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 8 | Of the 216 patients discharged in 1989–90 , none became vagrants during the first year of follow up ( J Leff et al , unpublished study ) . |
| 9 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 10 | Those who sell dogs in the first place have a great deal to answer for when it comes to explaining why the human-dog relationship is so often a disastrous mismatch . |
| 11 | Students who obtain passes in the first year subjects but do not intend to complete the HND may apply for the award of the HNC . |
| 12 | Did n't you hear tales of the first settlers from your father ? |
| 13 | She changes places with the first person she catches . |
| 14 | In the rest of the country , about half of roughly 100 candidates who won seats in the first round were linked with the pro-Rafsanjani ‘ pragmatic ’ faction . |
| 15 | The only reason I can see that you need players in the first teams is to see if they are playing well enough at a high level . |
| 16 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 17 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 18 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 19 | This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning . |
| 20 | A smaller catheter to enable us to study infants in the first two months of life is eagerly awaited , as this is the age group in which most oesophagopharyngeal reflux occurs . |