Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the first [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United .
2 When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by .
3 There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination .
4 Begin with the first page of the transcript and count the first 50 utterances which fulfil the following conditions :
5 We qualified easily , of course , and played the first two rounds with Dave Thomas .
6 I think we must seek clarification Mr and your willing to take the resolution and drop the first two lines of your resolution .
7 He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) .
8 I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving .
9 The latest report by the human rights office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala was issued in late July and covered the first six months of 1992 .
10 Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it .
11 It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing .
12 Take one from Women 5 Weekly and rewrite the first three paragraphs for Playboy .
13 We now iterate on A , but ignore the first two rows : unc We leave it to the reader to show that this converges quickly to 3 = 5 , x3 = { 1,0 , -1,1 } .
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