Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 2 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 3 | No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second . |
| 4 | A REVOLUTIONARY new Siberian surgery technique could help people in Teesside suffering from bone problems walk properly for the first time . |
| 5 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 6 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 7 | Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first . |
| 8 | As soon as the starter says ‘ Go ’ , ride positively towards the first fence , picking up a good rhythm as soon as possible . |
| 9 | International : Iran election feeds debate on ‘ Islamic solution ’ Iranians vote today for the first time since Khomeini died . |
| 10 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 11 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |
| 12 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 13 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 15 | B : yes A : turn left at the first roundabout … |
| 16 | Webster 's try midway through the first half was well-taken coming on the end of an astounding burst by prop Huw Williams-Jones . |
| 17 | They were in control from start to finish , with Don Caskie scoring the first try midway through the first half . |
| 18 | The alarm bells started to ring when flanker , Alan Brown dived over to score the opening try midway through the first half . |
| 19 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 20 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 21 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 22 | We bore right at the first gate — the left track leads up to a farmhouse — and later , along a grassy track with pine forest on the left , right again , where a dry stone wall creates a Y-junction . |
| 23 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 24 | The tale of two young men , friends in boyhood , who serve together in the First World War may sound like something Rolf Harris would sing about , but there 's more to it than that . |
| 25 | Ramblers , weeping standards — which are for the most part rambler types budded into tall standard stems — climbers , climbing sports and several species types all fall largely within the first category , but so often have peculiarities of their own that we should not generalize . |
| 26 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 27 | obviously but I think you need clearly in the first instance to use that |
| 28 | These figures include only the spontaneous abortions that occur late in the first trimester , so that an even higher proportion of conceptuses are probably at risk but die soon after the egg is implanted and are therefore difficult to detect . |
| 29 | Tap Enter twice after the first paragraph |