Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 2 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 3 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 4 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 5 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 6 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 7 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 8 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 9 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 10 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 11 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 12 | Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first . |
| 13 | And look out for the first Birthday File coming up soon ! |
| 14 | Jezrael let go and dodged weakly beneath the first one . |
| 15 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 16 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |
| 17 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 18 | The woman clung to Julia 's hand and broke down for the first time , weeping and pouring out a torrent of Italian that Julia was incapable of translating for herself . |
| 19 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 20 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 21 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 22 | Then I saw an advert for a new consciousness-raising group in Spare Rib , and went along to the first meeting . |
| 23 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 24 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 25 | Secondly , and arising out of the first function , it will produce a substantial statistical digest of basis data which is designed to serve the needs of future generations of Agrarian historians who investigate the period 1850-1914 . |
| 26 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 27 | The girls were awakened and taken across in the first convoy , the boys in the next . |
| 28 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 29 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 30 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |