Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 2 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 3 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 4 | She come downstairs well not for the first half hour . |
| 5 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |