Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | , and became the first lay students of Ushaw College , the Northern Catholic seminary , to train for ministry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Begin with the first page of the transcript and count the first 50 utterances which fulfil the following conditions : |
| 6 | We qualified easily , of course , and played the first two rounds with Dave Thomas . |
| 7 | I pulled out the compass , held it horizontally close to my eyes , let the needle settle onto north , looked that way and mapped the first few feet in my mind . |
| 8 | I think we must seek clarification Mr and your willing to take the resolution and drop the first two lines of your resolution . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's mainly a question of confidence and taking the first few steps . |
| 13 | Fish began to haul themselves out of water and become the first back-boned creatures to colonise the land . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The incubation period between picking up the infection and showing the first clinical signs is four to five days and during this time the animal appears clinically normal . |
| 16 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 17 | Take one from Women 5 Weekly and rewrite the first three paragraphs for Playboy . |
| 18 | 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 } . |