Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 2 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 3 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 4 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 5 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 7 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 8 | They have in the first year written 30,000 plans with a total of £900 million sums assured recording £100 million in premium income . |