Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 2 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 3 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 4 | The latter form is becoming extremely popular these days , a recent event witnessing the first 100 plus participants in a sponsored abseil over Malham Cove . |
| 5 | For amplification of genomic DNA , the α AChR gene 's P3A/P4 region ( 6 ) was used with a forward primer containing the first 21 bases of exon P3A , 5'GGG.AAT.TCG.ACA.TGG.TAG.ATC.TGC.CAC 3' ( position 235–256 ) and the reverse primer containing 22 bases of exon P4 , 5' AAA.GCT.TCC.ATT.TTA.GGT.TGT . |
| 6 | The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim . |