Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
2 | On the one hand opinion polls showed Chirac to be the right-winger most likely to be ahead on the first ballot of a presidential election , making the RPR anxious to win agreement on primaries . |
3 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
4 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
5 | Headingley saw a cracking match , and anyone lucky enough to be there on the first day is unlikely to have forgotten it . |
6 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
7 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
8 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
9 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |