Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | 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 . |
3 | And look out for the first Birthday File coming up soon ! |
4 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |