Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 3 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 4 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 5 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 6 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 7 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 8 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 9 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 10 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 11 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |