Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The textual space separating the first from later instances of the item " flock " shows the attentiveness required of the reader ( pp. 135 , 145 , 163 , 169 ) . |
| 2 | John Roderick 's party attacked the guns off the starboard bow , the 12 men capturing the first gun 's sandbagged emplacement in a grenade-throwing rush along the dock wall . |
| 3 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 4 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 5 | Mark the length of the second piece using the first as your guide . |
| 6 | PAT O BANE BAN The ten heartbeats preceding the first heartbeat of orgasm |
| 7 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 8 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 9 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 10 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 11 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 12 | The latter form is becoming extremely popular these days , a recent event witnessing the first 100 plus participants in a sponsored abseil over Malham Cove . |
| 13 | For amplification of genomic DNA , the α AChR gene 's P3A/P4 region ( 6 ) was used with a forward primer containing the first 21 bases of exon P3A , 5'GGG.AAT.TCG.ACA.TGG.TAG.ATC.TGC.CAC 3' ( position 235–256 ) and the reverse primer containing 22 bases of exon P4 , 5' AAA.GCT.TCC.ATT.TTA.GGT.TGT . |
| 14 | The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim . |