Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 2 | We were only given ten on the first day . |
| 3 | George said she only did that on the first and last nights of the season , unless there was a particularly successful production , like the time O'Hara had brought the house down in Richard II . |
| 4 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 5 | He thus became one of the first modern land surveyors . |
| 6 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 7 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 8 | Rikki Fulton also admitted he had not seen much of the first two series . |
| 9 | ‘ If a woman did not become pregnant after the first transfer attempt , any frozen embryos could be thawed and transferred in a subsequent menstrual cycle , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it 's better not to have any in the first place , ’ Merrill remarked idly , braking at a crossroads . |
| 12 | But although recycling and reuse are extremely important and something we can all support , the real solution to the waste problem is to try not to produce any in the first place ! |
| 13 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 14 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 15 | Woodwind intonation is rank at the beginning of the Tristan Prelude and also makes much of the first Lohengrin Prelude a trial ; the Tannhäuser Overture is for the most part glorious , despite short-winded trombones , but like the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony it is marred by low hum on the recording . |
| 16 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 17 | McCann came from behind to take each of the first two sets before Robertson began to find his touch . |
| 18 | I did n't think much of the first time really . |
| 19 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 20 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
| 22 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
| 23 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 24 | And I would say it 's on highways with your traffic on the access and on parking , and added that to the list , I did n't say that in the first instant . |
| 25 | The brew was so potent that several journalists , who had planned to be ‘ upcountry ’ watching the metal fly , instead spent most of the first day of the election in bed . |
| 26 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 27 | We will begin by briefly mentioning one of the first experiments to investigate memory for prose passages , as distinct from single sentences . |
| 28 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 29 | I must confess I did nt see much of the first 60 mins ( football training ! ) . |
| 30 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |