Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 2 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 3 | They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock . |
| 4 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 5 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 6 | Friars from all over Britain converged on York yesterday to celebrate the first arrival of their order in this country . |
| 7 | On Saturday the two prelates attended a service of vespers at the Church of San Gregorio , which stands on the site where Pope Gregory sent St Augustine of Canterbury off to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 . |
| 8 | The two got togged up to publicise the first programme in their new series of Watchdog tomorrow night ( BBC1 , 7.30pm ) which investigates the cost of school uniforms . |
| 9 | This chapter is written to help the reader to a more intimate knowledge of his law library , and also to guide the first steps of the research worker . |
| 10 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 11 | Tony and Nathan have made tea and soup and we have some before going out to feed the first batch of dogs . |
| 12 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 13 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 14 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |
| 15 | Off the field , Celtic are playing down weekend speculation that they 're about to announce the first instalment of finance for the Cambuslang stadium development . |
| 16 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 17 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 18 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 19 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |