Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has , she says , only enough petrol to reach the first garage . |
| 2 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 3 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 4 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 5 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 6 | Their postcards and T-shirts sell by the crateload , they 've done cover art for Marc Almond , Erasure and Boy George — and yet this month sees the first ever UK exhibition of their work ( including ‘ The Gipsy ’ , right ) . |
| 7 | Dry grasslands are in part a relic of early agriculture , dating from the days when pre-historic man undertook the first forest clearances . |
| 8 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |