Example sentences of "first few lines [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Most certainly , the Conservatives relied upon a theme song which combined Al Jolson 's hit song ‘ Sonny Boy ’ with the dependability of Baldwin , the first few lines of which ran as follows :
2 The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page .
3 The first few lines of the instruction section are quoted below for illustration :
4 When the studio manager asked him to say something to check the microphone levels , he recited the first few lines of The Wreck of the Deutschland with appropriate gestures .
5 On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher .
6 THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue .
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