Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 2 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 3 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 4 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 5 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 6 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 7 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 8 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 9 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 10 | Bodley 's view about the literary insignificance of English drama was formally challenged by Ben Jonson who published plays in the Folio edition of his Workes in 1616 and later , and in response to Jonson 's success , by Shakespeare 's first editors , Heminge and Condell , who brought out the First Folio of Shakespeare 's plays in 1623 ( eight years after Shakespeare died ) . |
| 11 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 12 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 13 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 14 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 15 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 16 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 17 | She held out the first page of the manuscript file for him to read . |
| 18 | Overall , however , the expedition was a great success : ‘ Most of our aims were achieved , as — among other objectives — we confirmed the presence of five threatened species of mammal , we carried out the first study of bats in the area , and we gathered valuable information on the flora of the area , including the discovery of a new species , ’ she continued . |
| 19 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 20 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 21 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 22 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 23 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 24 | He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere . |
| 25 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 26 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |
| 27 | He spells out the first name and I 'm thinking Jemayl/Jemmel , uh-huh . |
| 28 | He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night . |
| 29 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |