Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 2 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 3 | The story in Scotland begins with the first Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh where , in 1710 , noble ladies waited patiently to dance a minuet with their partners — one couple at a time to accommodate the huge dresses . |
| 4 | Centre Don Caskie returns for the first time in a month after suffering concussion in Gloucester 's defeat at Bath . |
| 5 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 6 | Group-led projects included the subsurface mapping of the Northumberland , Solway and northern Stainmore basins as the first phase of a rolling programme of overview studies of the Upper Palaeozoic basins of the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Forster exposes for the first time , with the official sanction of Du Maurier 's family , her fantasy life , her secret wartime affair , and the many contradictions in this complex woman 's inner life . |
| 8 | O'Connor refers to the first group of services as social investment and to the second as social consumption — a classification adopted by many other contemporary Marxists . |
| 9 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 10 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 11 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |