Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 2 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 3 | Now fitted with the superior 2.9-litre engine , the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year — 48 per cent falls are the norm . |
| 4 | The next series will run concurrently with the first set , and will be held in Tees-side . |
| 5 | Uniforum Asia ‘ 92 conference will run concurrently with the first Asia Pacific Networking , Open Systems & Workstations ( NOW ) exhibit August 25–27 at the Marina Mandarin Hotel in Singapore . |
| 6 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 7 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 8 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 9 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 10 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 11 | There are two other necessary ingredients , which will normally arise automatically from the first ingredient , self-replication itself . |
| 12 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 13 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 15 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 16 | The internal Labour pressure group that will meet officially for the first time in Stirling aims to unite and organise women from both wings of the party as well as from the constituencies and trades unions . |
| 17 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 19 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 20 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 21 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 23 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 24 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 25 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 26 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 27 | It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about . |
| 28 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 29 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 30 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |