Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 2 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 3 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 4 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 5 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 6 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 7 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 8 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 9 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 10 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 11 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |