Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
2 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
3 | The welcome feature about SuperCalc 5.5 's Fast Graphing facility is that when you include text that you want to use as the first and second titles and as the graph legend in the range you highlight , they will automatically be added to the chart that results when you click on the icon GPH . |
4 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
5 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
6 | As a matter of urgency I think chairman , be because if we 're going to apply , we need to apply for the first of April |
7 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
8 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |