Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 2 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |
| 3 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 4 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 5 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 6 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 7 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 8 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 9 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 10 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 11 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 13 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 14 | Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia . |
| 15 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 16 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 17 | When you shoot the Repeater Hand Gun work out the first shot normally . |
| 18 | When you shoot the repeater hand gun work out the first shot normally with a strength of 4 . |