Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 3 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 4 | That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 . |
| 5 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 6 | Willie and Zach waited at the foot of the ladder while Sammy scrabbled around the first rung . |
| 7 | While competitors sparkled in the first half , the Sussex-based cidermaker 's profits trickled down from £1.1m to £1.07m . |
| 8 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 9 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 10 | Judging from comments it seemed that after Leeds got over the first 15 mins . |
| 11 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 12 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
| 13 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 14 | Everton were surviving a Leeds siege thanks to Neville Southall 's brilliance when Ablett erred for the first time . |
| 15 | The whole of USL was valued at $325m eighteen months ago when AT&T sold off the first 21.7% . |
| 16 | In contrast to Clare , her sister Miranda was leading the fast and frivolous life of the exciting sixties as Britain launched into the first real business boom since Hitler 's war . |
| 17 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 18 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 19 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |