Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 2 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 3 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 4 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 5 | Failure to do this will obviously leave the child unprepared to understand and deal with the first time he or she is called ‘ nigger ’ , or some other racial slur . |
| 6 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 7 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |