Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 2 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 3 | ‘ I only managed to walk round the first time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 5 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 6 | ‘ Then we 'll just have to stop at the first one , ’ Isabel declared . |
| 7 | Neither partner could fail to be aware of the interest in their company which , more than once , threatened to result in a book chronicling their success , especially as Laura had just finished working on the first Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating . |
| 8 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 9 | Right here I just wanted to tell about the first time I ever saw him . |
| 10 | I got up , I remember like I 'd just I 'd just learnt to dive off the first one like I was running down like , yes ! |
| 11 | Short , left-handed and aggressive , he was an opener who hit the ball extremely hard , played every shot in the book with great relish and was always looking to attack from the first ball . |
| 12 | Brian Horton says that Joey is a proven scorer … he 's scored goals in the youth team … the reserves and hopefully keeps scoring for the first team … he 's exciting … and people love to watch wingers … |
| 13 | I think this whole thing of racing off to get divorced at the first snag you hit seems pathetic . ’ |
| 14 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 15 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
| 16 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 17 | I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen . |
| 18 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 19 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 20 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 22 | ( There is presumably no reason IBM ca n't , like the services , make new offers to those it particularly wants to keep after the first time . ) |
| 23 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 24 | ‘ When you have a child to consider you do n't go rushing into the first relationship that comes along . |
| 25 | I would n't go shopping for the first few weeks . |
| 26 | The second point concerning the position of women which anthropologists would almost universally endorse follows from the first . |
| 27 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 28 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 29 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 30 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |