Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 2 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 3 | Parasitaemia on thick blood films and symptoms were recorded daily for the first week and subsequently every week until 28 days after therapy . |
| 4 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 5 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 6 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 7 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 8 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 9 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 10 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 11 | ‘ We gave two stupid free kicks away in the first half and did n't clear them at all . |
| 12 | He would give the game away within the first hour and Felipe de Santis would throw them out . |
| 13 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 14 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 15 | I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow ! |
| 16 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 17 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 18 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 20 | Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up . |
| 21 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 22 | I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight . |
| 23 | He 'd spoken to Pete twice , once on the first evening and again at breakfast . |
| 24 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 25 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 26 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 27 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 28 | All histological material , both from the first cystoscopy and the second cystoscopy , was sent both to the local pathologist and then representative sections sent to the reference pathologist . |
| 29 | Others have survived similar heart complaints and are still working , both in the First Division and at the highest level on the Continent . |
| 30 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |