Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the first [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 2 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 3 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 4 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 5 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 6 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 7 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 8 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 9 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 10 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 11 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 12 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |