Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the first [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 2 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 3 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 4 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 5 | If you prefer to enter the finished garment measurements only , ( taken from a diagram in a magazine for instance ) you can put these in the first column and just enter zero each time in the ease column . |
| 6 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 7 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 8 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |