Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gently probing fingers touched the first dainty hairs of her bonny thatch , and crept through her undergrowth like a lizard through the forest . |
| 2 | She has , she says , only enough petrol to reach the first garage . |
| 3 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 4 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 5 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |
| 6 | About 15 families attended the first meeting and all wanted the group to be both a supporting and fighting unit . |
| 7 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 8 | Their postcards and T-shirts sell by the crateload , they 've done cover art for Marc Almond , Erasure and Boy George — and yet this month sees the first ever UK exhibition of their work ( including ‘ The Gipsy ’ , right ) . |
| 9 | Successful candidates — and very few students fail the first grading — are promoted to the next kyu grade . |
| 10 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |
| 11 | First of all , the discipline originated in two countries which were essentially satisfied powers following the First World War . |