Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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1 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
2 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
3 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |
4 | Now any postmultiplying column say{ a , b , c , 1 } , must satisfy unc In performing our iterations , therefore , we may ignore completely the first row of A ; we use the last three rows to find the corresponding elements in a column , and then apply(3) to find the top element . |
5 | We shall adopt here the first of these solutions , as being the least objectionable of the two . |
6 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |