Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 10 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 15 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 16 | What lay behind the first three grounds of appeal was the direction which the trial judge gave to the jury on the subject of concert . |