Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 2 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 3 | Andy Robinson 's side may be a blend of the old and the new , but they still look like the side to beat again after demolishing Nottingham in the first round and drawing last year 's losing finalists , Northampton , in the quarter-finals . |
| 4 | After giving details of the first four murders , Mr John said : ‘ There has been a fifth development , a murder in south London , which bears features similar to the others we are investigating . ’ |
| 5 | Burnden Park boss Bruce Rioch is keen to strengthen his squad after winning promotion to the First Division , and Manchester United 's Welsh international figures highly on his wanted list . |
| 6 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 7 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 8 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 9 | ( He had previously given assurances that he would return to face charges of slandering Mazowiecki during the first round . ) |
| 10 | We are now evaluating the performance of wether lambs from the first cross to be finished under hill conditions , and we will use the first cross females for early lamb production without using sponges . |
| 11 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 12 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 13 | Damna " goes with " ( as a noun followed by its modifier ) , with ( as a modifier followed by its noun ) , sits in mid-line between the adroitly shuffled noun-phrases , and , the word that marks an emphatic turn in the poem , is slipped into focusing position after the first word of the new verse-sentence . |
| 14 | Kelly was excellent though he was mighty lucky to get away with tugging Giggs in the first minute . |
| 15 | I mean , we can , we can start by we I mean we can get people set up for doing things from the first of March ca n't we ? |
| 16 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 17 | Although , as discussed in Chapter 4 , most search consultants encounter difficulties in attracting candidates on behalf of clients who insist on remaining anonymous for at least the initial stages of the search , many clients see this as a real plus in using headhunters in the first place . |
| 18 | Children need to get involved in using language from the first lesson . |
| 19 | He received a ban some years ago for losing his temper while playing in that veritable hive of provocation known as Australian grade cricket , and this latest ruckus began , apparently , when Marcus Wight ( whose father , the umpire , Peter , should have taught him better ) proffered a few choice words of his won upon dismissing Ramprakash in the first innings . |
| 20 | It moved from Greenwich in 1933 to new premises built on an estate provided by ship owner Gifford Sherman Reade in gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in safeguarding shipping during the First World War . |
| 21 | For instance , at Hambro Life Assurance , employees receive the costs of legal and any other fees incurred in buying property for the first time . |
| 22 | £20 million will be invested in reading recovery in the first year . |
| 23 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |
| 24 | Just as the Spirit was active in breathing life into the first man ( Gen 2:7 ) , so here he is associated with the birth of the last Adam . |
| 25 | For although Piper 's manager Frank Warren thinks Benn believes he has made a big mistake in selecting Piper as a first challenger and does n't fancy the job , I suspect the opposite is true — he may think it is going to be too easy . |
| 26 | ‘ For instance , would openness deter complainants from making complaints in the first place ? |
| 27 | Three leading opposition figures were prevented from leaving Kenya in the first week of July to attend a human rights conference in London . |
| 28 | It intends to use its contacts with architects , builders , joiners , electricians etc to provide a building and hopefully also assist in raising income for the first few years ' running costs . |
| 29 | Further difficulties lay in raising funds in the first place . |
| 30 | But the report missed the fact that the republicans , through the Wolfe Tone Societies , had been largely responsible for creating NICRA in the first place and some commentators have accused Cameron of naïveté about republican influence . |