Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social situations it has to be recognised that there is at least one other sentient being present who has his own objectives which might accord with or oppose those of the first person . |
| 2 | Freed , furthermore , after 1870 from the embarrassment of the papal states and continually reinforced by its growing missionary societies , the Church was manifestly expanding in number and influence all through the first half of the twentieth century , when other large Churches were only too clearly declining rather than advancing . |
| 3 | One sherpa — Tensing Norgay accompanied Sir Edward Hillary and became one of the first men to climb Mt . |
| 4 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 5 | ROGER GANN FASTENS HIS SEATBELT AND TESTS SOME OF THE FIRST 33MHz PCs TO STORM ONTO THE SCENE . |
| 6 | Some lads near me thought this was n't quite right , and spent most of the first half trying to think up a new Forrester song , to the tune of Monty Python 's ‘ I 'm a lumberjack ’ . |
| 7 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 8 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 9 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 10 | This year he is revisiting those parts , and visiting some for the first time , for a series of regional bookselling reports for The Bookseller . |
| 11 | Tie Rack opened nine stores and closed four in the first half , and plans to have opened another 14 by the year-end , of which at least five will be in the UK . |
| 12 | In comparison , the index for eastern Germany — including price-controlled goods — was below the level for 1989 for the final quarter of 1990 at 98.5 , but reached 107.0 for the first quarter of 1991 ( 1989=100 ) . |