Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Norcross found that the acquisition of a button-pressing task proceeded more rapidly with the first pair of stimuli than with the second . |
| 32 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 39 | I snatched it up halfway through the first tinkle . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 42 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 46 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Well , up twice in the first day er , sorry , Bernie , Lancashire region moving motion three seventy . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 52 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 55 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 56 | Go straight across at the first crossroads . |
| 57 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 58 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 59 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 60 | This section provides a step-by-step guide for users setting up Offline for the first time . |