Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts .
2 It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time .
3 For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle .
4 ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis .
5 Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools .
6 She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind .
7 Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later .
8 Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team .
9 The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person .
10 After early bumping at the first bend , Clydal found himself in arrears and Pilot Error made the early running from Stormhill , who quickly took control down the far side and looked set to win .
11 In fact he was still working on a first version of the fourth act ( which eventually became Act III ) when he sailed for New York on 24 September .
12 On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time .
13 What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked .
14 But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros .
15 It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns .
16 ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’
17 B&P human resources director David Ramsay said the firm was resuming full-time working for the first time in four months , in order to meet greater demand .
18 The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have .
19 There were no rebleeding episodes in the group which were not actively bleeding after the first treatment .
20 Was he actually fighting in the First World War or ?
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