Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 2 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 3 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 4 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 5 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
| 6 | His foremost maxim — of never admitting defeat , of sticking to your guns through thick and thin — came to his aid and offered the first shreds of comfort since the unpleasantness of the night before . |
| 7 | they would terminate the contract and refund the first instalment . |
| 8 | To illustrate the way word-processors use embedded symbols , type a paragraph of text and indent the first line with a single tab . |
| 9 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 10 | In this decade , Glasgow held a Grand Bazaar and the first ever exhibition of deaf art ; it also built its new deaf centre , had a flourishing soccer team and staged the first soccer international between Scotland and England . |
| 11 | Toss the first ball in your right hand towards your left one and as it peaks throw the ball in the left hand towards the right and catch the first ball in your left . |
| 12 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 13 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 14 | This week Interex , Hewlett-Packard Co 's user group , will be having its annual meeting in sultry New Orleans and HP is expected to take it into its confidence and announce the first implementation of the PA-RISC 7100 chip in a new single-processor non-Unix business system dubbed the HP 3000 Series 987 . |
| 15 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 16 | I confirm that you will be writing extending an invitation to join the group and calling the first meeting for 2p.m. on Tuesday 27th April at the university . |
| 17 | Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson . |
| 18 | Silence was observed as she moved a table to stand between Charlotte and the chair Natasha had sat in , then arranged the china and poured the first cups . |
| 19 | ( Z ) This is a useful addition to the Agenda and gives the first intimation to members that they should book the date . |
| 20 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
| 21 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 22 | Fix first gutter support 1m from outlet and position the first length of guttering . |
| 23 | He switched on the radio , found a music station and followed the first limousine out of the airport onto the Grand Central Parkway , heading towards Manhattan . |
| 24 | In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself . |
| 25 | Otherwise such times can be worked out in advance and become a first call on everyone 's schedule . |
| 26 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 27 | We rendezvous every morning near Blackfriars Bridge and get the first jobs over the radio . |
| 28 | An icy blast erupts from the caster and strikes the first unit in its path and within its range of 24″ . |
| 29 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 30 | Bradford thereafter took the lead in the provision of medical inspection on a large scale and established the first school treatment clinic , developments which owed much to the energy of Margaret McMillan . |