Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either they can back the Union or they can take the first , irrevocable step towards separation , ’ he said at the party 's morning press briefing . |
| 2 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |
| 3 | That she should spare a first glance , let alone a second , on this man was almost incredible . |
| 4 | So far , I 've given two to friends in hospital and one to an elderly neighbour , who 's begged me to let her have another one so that she can pass the first one on . |
| 5 | How did you feel , cos , you said that you can remember the first day that you arrived |
| 6 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 7 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | The Alliance of Small Island States , which includes Cyprus , Malta , the Caribbean islands , Maldives , Seychelles , and many Pacific territories , fear that they may become the first victims of global warming . |
| 9 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 10 | The new discipline of industrial archaeology , which emerged in the 1950s , was largely inspired by Rolt 's writing , and it was entirely appropriate that he should become the first president of the Association for Industrial Archaeology when this was founded in 1973 . |
| 11 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 12 | Her mind refused to believe that anything could happen the first time one had intercourse . |
| 13 | I mean you think , when you sign y with your insurers thing say well I 'll have this and I 'll pay the first fifty |
| 14 | Well , if there are n't any questions er , I would return to the resolutions , er , separately and I would propose the first one which is an ordinary resolution namely it 's resolution one , set out in the notice of meeting to increase the authorized share capital of the company . |
| 15 | It 's five in the morning and I can hear the first cars swooshing through empty streets . |
| 16 | Erm because the report is er quite a long report mainly the er part of the report erm I will pick out the most important comments and if I could take the first part of the report first erm this concerns a new staffing structure between er , newly emerged welfare rights and advice service . |
| 17 | Yes the there are two aspects really to that , one is the length of runway operating er and the other is the surface , erm , if I could take the first one . |
| 18 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
| 19 | Repeat the process for squares 91 to 135 then 136 to 180 and you will have the first 38 rows of squares printed over the full 180 needles , complete with your colour key . |
| 20 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 21 | and then start losing confidence , wasting time , if you 've got some check , like that , right , okay , so if you like to work that one out , you should n't have any problem with the , the second bar , if you can do the first one . |
| 22 | Cos you 'll get the first post then . |
| 23 | We are now evaluating the performance of wether lambs from the first cross to be finished under hill conditions , and we will use the first cross females for early lamb production without using sponges . |
| 24 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |
| 25 | Their desire to leave farming will simply be increased and they will seize the first opportunity to move . |
| 26 | He will challenge and receive no answer , and he will join the first two . |
| 27 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 28 | As he showed in a report , dated 30th March , 1839 , to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , the existing offices could be retained until the new block was complete , and it could form the first stage in a complete rebuilding of both sides of Downing Street . |
| 29 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 30 | It wo n't be easy , but we must take the first steps now . |