Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 2 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 3 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 4 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 5 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 6 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 7 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 8 | There were brambles up to the first floor . ’ |
| 9 | We were perhaps closest in the two winters immediately after the first rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 , when we both signed to play for Western Province while serving our Test bans . |
| 10 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 11 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 12 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 13 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 14 | Crete is a real must if you enjoy a combination of relaxation and exploration in a climate which attracted the Minoans here in the first place . |
| 15 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 16 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 17 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 18 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 19 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 20 | Ironically , only three weeks earlier in the first event of the season , Laurette Maritz , from Johannesburg , had won the Marbella Open at Los Naranjos . |
| 21 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 22 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 23 | It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex . |
| 24 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 25 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 26 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 27 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 28 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 29 | He called the villagers together for the first firing . |
| 30 | ‘ We all have our own ways out of the first forest , ’ Harry said . |