Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 3 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 4 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 6 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 7 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 8 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 9 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 10 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 11 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 12 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 13 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 14 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 15 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 16 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 17 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 18 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 19 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 20 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 21 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 22 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 24 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 25 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 26 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 27 | The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too ! |
| 28 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 29 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 30 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |