Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first minute " in BNC.

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1 Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser .
2 After the first minutes of trembling outrage , Maldita had stopped behaving as though his fingers were red-hot pokers and reacted almost voluptuously to his touch .
3 We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space .
4 Albion were on their guard from the first minute when Steve Guppy curled a shot into keeper Stuart Naylor 's body .
5 Within the first minute he scored a goal , and another a quarter of an hour later .
6 Cambridge struck 38½ to Oxford 's 40 in the first minute and despite the Light Blues having the better of the tide , the crews were level at Beverley Brook .
7 Bradley Allen set the tone in the first minute when he hit the post after Spurs goalkeeper Ian Walker had flapped at Wilson 's cross .
8 In the first minute of the second half Celtic fashioned a stunning goal .
9 In the first minute , twenty-two Macleans died .
10 The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back .
11 In the first minute of the plug formation the platelets retain their granules and remain loosely packed .
12 In the first minute of extra time , Bob Daynes shot inches past the post with the home 'keeper beaten .
13 The 1992 open final between St Albans and Woodmill started brightly with the southern team quickly making their intentions clear with a Greg Smale goal in the first minute and an Ian Plummer long shot which was just wide in the third minute .
14 It did n't appear it would go that way , however , in the first minute when Moscow should have gone ahead .
15 Saints led 8-6 at half-time but a lapse of concentration in the first minute of the second half , when Kiwi loose forward Tawera Nikau put centre Tony Smith through the gap for Cas ' match-winning try , proved the turning point .
16 The Springboks , back after a 23-year absence , trailed in the first minute to one of Liley 's two successes .
17 Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop .
18 The record-breaking Wolves ' hitman had a 20 yard screamer touched over the bar in the first minute , shot against the keeper 's legs in the 24th , was again denied by Bolder in the 76th and fired into the side netting six minutes from the end .
19 It was Dyble who broke the deadlock with a penalty in the first minute and centre Kelly Wagland came within a whisker of scoring an early try when stopped inches short of the line .
20 Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan .
21 ‘ I came back for pre-season perfectly all right and fit , but I twisted the ankle in the first minute of our first workout game against Brentford at the training ground .
22 Their most expensive signing , £2.5million striker Ian Wright , sat on the bench for the opening game with a thigh strain , and turned his ankle in the first minute when coming on .
23 As soon as ‘ Jock ’ McDougall sent a blistering back pass crashing against his own crossbar in the first minute , I knew there were only two teams in it .
24 Shh Doncaster got the quickest goal of the afternoon in the first minute and Walsall got the only goal with seven minutes left .
25 In the first minute of the game Jackie McWilliams scored her 40th goal of the season , easily lobbing the ball over Sharon Rowe in the Victorians goal from the edge of the circle .
26 It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute .
27 Kelly was excellent though he was mighty lucky to get away with tugging Giggs in the first minute .
28 Ards lacked imagination and drive against an inexperienced Town side , and had a lucky escape in the first minute .
29 It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however .
30 ‘ Ah yes , the convict , ’ said Trentham , and removed the grin in the first minute , as Tommy danced around him trying to stay out of trouble .
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