Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 2 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 3 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 4 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 5 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 6 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 7 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 8 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |