Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 2 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 3 | I think christmas should start everywhere in the first week |
| 4 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 5 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 6 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 7 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 8 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 9 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 10 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 11 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 12 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 13 | Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride . |
| 14 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |
| 15 | Now fitted with the superior 2.9-litre engine , the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year — 48 per cent falls are the norm . |
| 16 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 17 | Uniforum Asia ‘ 92 conference will run concurrently with the first Asia Pacific Networking , Open Systems & Workstations ( NOW ) exhibit August 25–27 at the Marina Mandarin Hotel in Singapore . |
| 18 | The next series will run concurrently with the first set , and will be held in Tees-side . |
| 19 | The internal Labour pressure group that will meet officially for the first time in Stirling aims to unite and organise women from both wings of the party as well as from the constituencies and trades unions . |
| 20 | It will return tomorrow with the first in the annual series of company performance league tables . |
| 21 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 22 | And I reflect that if you remember to post early , the letter will come here by the first post ! |
| 23 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 24 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 25 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 26 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |