Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that initially CD-I may be seen by those either upgrading their CD-A players or buying for the first time , as an added available dimension . |
| 2 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 3 | The first laugh of the evening came with the phrase ‘ non-aligned countries like Nato ’ ; the second with the observation that killing for the first time is ‘ like sex ’ : Darke 's audience of true believers was easily pleased . |
| 4 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 5 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 7 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 8 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 9 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 10 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 11 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 12 | Your friend awaits you , I think , ’ he added , nodding towards the courtyard where Iris was standing beside Melissa 's car , and speaking for the first time in faultless English instead of French . |
| 13 | In the conversations , he talks of preparing Mahler 's Fifth Symphony over two years of play-throughs , rehearsals , and recording before the first concert performance in Berlin . |
| 14 | Unilinx services should be up and running by the first quarter of next year . |
| 15 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 16 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 17 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 18 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 19 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 20 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 21 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 22 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 23 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 24 | Unfortunately these two categories overlap , whilst those temporary workers ( or those who are giving proxy answers for them ) who are unsure of the precise nature of their temporary employment are also more likely to describe themselves as falling into the first category . |
| 25 | Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category . |
| 26 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |