Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 2 | The Sergeant was played by William Hartnell , best known as the first of TV 's Dr Who . |
| 3 | Usually cited as the first of its kind , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers comprised into a national organisation over one hundred unions or branches of union , the whole administered by a central executive . |
| 4 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 5 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 6 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 7 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 8 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 9 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |