Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 2 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 4 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 5 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 6 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 7 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 9 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 10 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 11 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 12 | My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know ! |
| 13 | Nick actually captained the Palace on occasions in Walker 's absence , and he went on to play regularly for us throughout the first three wartime seasons , before his duties in the Royal Navy prevented him continuing his Palace career . |