Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 2 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 3 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 4 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 5 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 6 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 7 | The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter . |
| 8 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box . |
| 10 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 11 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |