Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 2 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 3 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 4 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 5 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 6 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 7 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 8 | The teachers demonstrate and explain the progression from basic turns to parallel in the first video and the second covers various types of turn for steeper terrain . |
| 9 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 10 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 11 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 12 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 13 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 14 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 15 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 16 | The technique is to allow through the first impressions that come to you . |
| 17 | The defendants were the owners of a public house which was run by a manager and his wife , who had a licence to live on the first floor and to take in paying guests . |
| 18 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 19 | I found it very difficult to get past the first fleet but when I did the game became more enjoyable especially as the 256 colour graphics match most games out today . |
| 20 | The whole secret is to get over the first round and then improve your display for the next game . ’ |
| 21 | Ballyfolion was forced to check on the first bend and Hyland said the dog cramped in the closing stages . |
| 22 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |
| 23 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 24 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 25 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |