Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'll start with the first one and I 'll pass it round and just put either the relaxing on one hand and the reviving on the other and you 'll have one hand relaxed the other one doing this . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I 'll wish for the first and last dance tonight and as many as you can spare in between , ’ Harry rejoined , and was pleased to see that Cora-Beth was actually blushing . |
| 3 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 4 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 5 | I used to dive off the first board |
| 6 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 7 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 8 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 9 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |
| 10 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 11 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 12 | I will begin with the first line of argument , which asserts that the investigation of a suspect ends when he is charged . |
| 13 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 14 | In this article I will deal with the first and the last — ‘ professional clearance ’ and confidentiality . |
| 15 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 16 | The question then is whether a State party to the first treaty can prevent another treaty party from entering into a later treaty from which it is excluded , but which would conflict with the first treaty . |
| 17 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 18 | This social report , which will appear for the first time in respect of the year ended 31 March 1993 , will include personnel issues , relationships with producers , educational and development impact , shareholder relations , and environmental impact . |
| 19 | The module , which will run for the first time from February 1994 , offers students an opportunity to spend time working with a voluntary/ community organisation . |
| 20 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 21 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
| 22 | I am anxious that you should start work on this project as soon as possible , so that there are no last-minute delays , I should therefore be grateful if you could start on the first batch of frames , of which I give details below : |
| 23 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 24 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 25 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 26 | Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move . |
| 27 | The following section deals with the basic exercises you will use during the first 6 months . |
| 28 | As you can see from the first diagram , the body of even the toughest fighter is covered with ‘ soft spots ’ ( or vulnerable areas ) which can easily be seen and reached . |
| 29 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |
| 30 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |