Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only given ten on the first day . |
| 2 | George said she only did that on the first and last nights of the season , unless there was a particularly successful production , like the time O'Hara had brought the house down in Richard II . |
| 3 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 4 | He thus became one of the first modern land surveyors . |
| 5 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 6 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 7 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 8 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 9 | Woodwind intonation is rank at the beginning of the Tristan Prelude and also makes much of the first Lohengrin Prelude a trial ; the Tannhäuser Overture is for the most part glorious , despite short-winded trombones , but like the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony it is marred by low hum on the recording . |
| 10 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 11 | McCann came from behind to take each of the first two sets before Robertson began to find his touch . |
| 12 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 14 | The brew was so potent that several journalists , who had planned to be ‘ upcountry ’ watching the metal fly , instead spent most of the first day of the election in bed . |
| 15 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 16 | We will begin by briefly mentioning one of the first experiments to investigate memory for prose passages , as distinct from single sentences . |
| 17 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 18 | It is far better to never get unhealthy in the first place ! |