Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 2 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 3 | Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came . |
| 4 | A week later the first steam and ash began to erupt from a newly formed crater on the summit . |
| 5 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 6 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |