Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 2 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 3 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 4 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 5 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 6 | Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson . |
| 7 | Kendall received a boost yesterday with every first team player , including recent absentees John Ebbrell , Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley , training except broken leg victim Mark Ward . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 9 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 10 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 11 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 13 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 14 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 15 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 16 | Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval . |
| 17 | In other words , the logarithm of the price level , p , appears on the right-hand side instead of the first derivative of its natural value . |
| 18 | But hard graft is rewarded at St James ' Park tonight as the First Division leaders pursue a £1 million bonus . |
| 19 | There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls . |
| 20 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 21 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 22 | Sandwith made a rare error midway round the first lap when he clipped a corner and lost speed . |
| 23 | Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner . |
| 24 | I think everyone needs the director to be vitally interested in the work well beyond the first week of actual performance . |
| 25 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 26 | If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim . |
| 27 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 28 | TWO SERB soldiers accused of war crimes went on trial yesterday in the first attempt by Bosnia 's Muslim authorities to bring alleged perpetrators of atrocities to justice . |
| 29 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 30 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |