Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 2 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 3 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 4 | Winters are wild enough to curtail many of the outdoor pursuits that attract in the first place . |
| 5 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 6 | If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion . |
| 7 | Indeed , a striking and major aspect of the final volumes of À la Recherche is their often cruel analysis of the moral bankruptcy and social collapse of this salon world , during the years that culminated in the First World War . |
| 8 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 9 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 10 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 11 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 12 | Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years . |
| 13 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 14 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 15 | European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 . |
| 16 | This means that initially CD-I may be seen by those either upgrading their CD-A players or buying for the first time , as an added available dimension . |
| 17 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 18 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 19 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 20 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 21 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 22 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |