Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 2 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 3 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 4 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 5 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 6 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 7 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 8 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 9 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 10 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 11 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 12 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 13 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 14 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 15 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 16 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 17 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 18 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 19 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 20 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 23 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 25 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 26 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 27 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 28 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 29 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 30 | They follow on from the first set and the opening balances are already entered . |