Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [art] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 2 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 3 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 4 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 5 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |
| 6 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 7 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 8 | In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback . |