Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 2 | These figures include only the spontaneous abortions that occur late in the first trimester , so that an even higher proportion of conceptuses are probably at risk but die soon after the egg is implanted and are therefore difficult to detect . |
| 3 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 4 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 5 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 6 | Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first . |
| 7 | And look out for the first Birthday File coming up soon ! |
| 8 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 9 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 10 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 11 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 12 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |