Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 2 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 3 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 4 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 5 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 6 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 7 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 8 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 9 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 10 | While ‘ The Month of August ’ and a number of other poems which pursue sexual and economic questions do appear in the first volume , Leapor 's most angry works were left out . |
| 11 | Other relationships , of a kind , do follow within the first year . |
| 12 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 13 | Avoid over-spending in the first half of the year and set aside as much as you possibly can in the event of any tax demands or unexpected large financial outlays later . |
| 14 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 15 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 16 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 17 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 18 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 19 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 20 | I think it is tough for BD because the midfield have their own way of playing which they 've had since the first season back , and Chapman knew where to be cos they built it round him . |
| 21 | Is this a *true* reflection of the quality of football we 've played over the first couple of months … and are we likely to break Cov 's unbeaten run ? |
| 22 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 23 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 24 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 25 | Geldart drools with enthusiasm when he speaks of some of the players who have broken into the first team or are on the verge . |
| 26 | ‘ If the response we have received to the first phase continues we will embark on the creation of a ‘ mirror scheme ’ , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 28 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 29 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 30 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |