Example sentences of "do [prep] the first [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 . |
| 2 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 3 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 4 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 5 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 6 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 7 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 8 | And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh , |