Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb infin] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 2 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 3 | Why did the crisis occur in the first place ? |
| 4 | And with feelings too complex to itemise , he watched the curtain rise on the first official London performance of The Hooded Owl . |
| 5 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |
| 6 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 7 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 8 | But did an agreement exist in the first place ? |