Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 2 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 3 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 4 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 5 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 6 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 7 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 8 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 9 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 10 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 11 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 12 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 13 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 15 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 16 | He quickly ran over to the first hangar . |
| 17 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 18 | These survived until about 8000 years ago , when they were probably wiped out by the first human settlers . |
| 19 | Unlike other LIFFE futures contracts , all open positions at the end of a trading day are automatically closed out at the first subsequent opening price for the respective delivery month on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 's JGB futures contract . |
| 20 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 21 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 22 | Secondly , and perhaps inevitably arising out of the first situation , the young adult who joins the sub-culture of deafness and uses sign language has , in the community 's eyes , given up the search for sameness and therefore society 's help comes in a ‘ care for the disabled ’ package . |
| 23 | I wonder if we could move now move over to the first which is on er the first main resolution of which amendment to the other resolution . |
| 24 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 25 | • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it . |
| 26 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 27 | erm , you do n't give up at the first little hurdle . |
| 28 | The inclusion of Butler ( Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ) was typical : omitted from the original membership he simply turned up to the first meeting , according to Hugh Thomas , ‘ and of course was allowed to stay … . ’ |
| 29 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 30 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |