Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |
| 32 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 33 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 34 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
| 35 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
| 36 | Sure enough , the shrieking is louder and the wheel is hopping more violently at the first corner . |
| 37 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 38 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 39 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 40 | I snatched it up halfway through the first tinkle . |
| 41 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 42 | ‘ It was absolutely astonishing , ’ said Ludens , also not for the first time . |
| 43 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 44 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 45 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 46 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 47 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 48 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 49 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 50 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 51 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 52 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 53 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 54 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 55 | Well , up twice in the first day er , sorry , Bernie , Lancashire region moving motion three seventy . |
| 56 | President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really . |
| 57 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 58 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 59 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 60 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |