Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had problems in the first half against Scotland . |
| 2 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 3 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 4 | Did n't you hear tales of the first settlers from your father ? |
| 5 | She changes places with the first person she catches . |
| 6 | The only reason I can see that you need players in the first teams is to see if they are playing well enough at a high level . |
| 7 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 8 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 9 | This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning . |
| 10 | A smaller catheter to enable us to study infants in the first two months of life is eagerly awaited , as this is the age group in which most oesophagopharyngeal reflux occurs . |