Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 2 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 3 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 4 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 5 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 6 | Soon they will be needing a personal loan , perhaps for the first time ever , to pay for the carpets , the curtains and the new kitchen . |
| 7 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 8 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 9 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 10 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 11 | Already in the first century AD , under the influence of Judaism , Roman Society had begun to introduce a weekly day of rest — unlike ancient Greece where there were not even any school holidays , except on special occasions such as days in honour of Apollo , Poseidon , etc . |
| 12 | This chance can be reduced by arranging the line of the ropes to avoid sharp flakes and vice-like cracks , ensuring the anchor slings are long enough to prevent jamming against the rock , and finally by the first person down testing that the ropes are running freely through the anchors before the others abseil . |
| 13 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 14 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 15 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |
| 16 | THE chairman of the Russian parliament , Ruslan Khasbulatov , called openly for the first time yesterday for Boris Yeltsin 's impeachment after the Constitutional Court had ruled that the president had acted in contravention of the constitution . |
| 17 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 18 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 19 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 20 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 21 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 22 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 23 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 24 | Midway through the first half here at Filbert Street still Leicester City nil Nottingham Forest nil but a good game . |
| 25 | The acrobatics need a great deal of skill but anyone fancying a ride need n't worry if they have a weak stomach , they 'll probably leave that behind after the first manouvre anyway . |
| 26 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
| 27 | What is absolutely sure is that Montini , even during the first session when Pope John was alive , provided the plan that saved the Council from chaos and then , on becoming pope , saw it patiently through to the end despite formidable difficulties . |
| 28 | Iron Towards the end of the second millennium BC , but particularly during the first millennium BC , developments in smelting technology meant that iron became available . |
| 29 | The earliest surviving portraits are almost exclusively of the first century BC . |
| 30 | The multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary nature of communications can , however , make it very disjointed , particularly in the first year when sociology , psychology , and so on , are studied as separate subjects between which little connection is made . |