Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we went into the first preview , in front of an audience , with plenty of confidence . |
| 2 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 3 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 4 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 5 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 6 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 7 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 8 | Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall . |
| 9 | Here we focus on the first of these . |
| 10 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 11 | Here we demonstrate for the first time that TFIIA is also involved in the expression of classical pol III genes ( t-RNA , VAI-RNA and 5S-RNA ) . |
| 12 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 13 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 14 | But , although the common ground is large and includes almost everything said in the first eight chapters about how to fill in the framework and conduct the disputes , unity then becomes too much for us . |
| 15 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 16 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 17 | Again we discussed in the first chapter a little of why such questions get asked at this stage . |