Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 2 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 3 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 4 | It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat . |
| 5 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 6 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 7 | The momentum of the swing forces you to turn your back on the opponent , who is waiting to counter-attack at the first opportunity . |
| 8 | Distinguishing between will of the first realm , which must ‘ to some degree remain impenetrable to inspection ’ , and will of the second realm , which is both conscious and utilitarian , Farber suggests , |
| 9 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 10 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 11 | Which was amazing as we started working together far too late , there was a shoestring budget , dancers speaking on stage for the first time . |
| 12 | To which the great shambling John Wayne figure replies : ‘ By stopping him getting on base in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | They had Millwall running for cover in the first half and for once made the most of their superiority . |
| 14 | We 've got a brand new management team coming into place on the first of April . |
| 15 | This was a very even match with both goals coming under pressure during the first half . |
| 16 | We all walk a certain amount every day of our lives , even if we are sedentary , and that is easier than starting from scratch for the first time jogging or cycling . |
| 17 | In the next few weeks many people will be coming to class for the first time . |
| 18 | To those leaving we say thank you for your efforts during an especially difficult past two years and to those coming on board for the first time we wish you every success in the future . |
| 19 | However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets . |
| 20 | It is the extraordinary manner in which the pathological imagery has simply been inverted so that it forms the basis of a pastoral view which asserts the strength and durability of black family life and , in present circumstances , retreats from confronting the difficult issues which result in black children arriving in care in the first place . |
| 21 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |