Example sentences of "give [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 2 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 3 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 4 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 6 | We have 15 to give away to the first readers whose named are pulled out of the bag on July 8 . |
| 7 | We have 60 bottles to give away to the first readers to answer the following question and send their answer , with their name and address , to : . |
| 8 | We have 250 jars of peach halves , each worth £3.95 , to give away to the first readers to write in . |
| 9 | We have 250 copies to give away to the first readers to write to Noilly Prat Booklet Offer , . |
| 10 | We have 500 booklets to give away to the first readers to write to John West/1H , Gramby Marketing Services Ltd , School Lane , Denham Maasey , Altrincham , Cheshire WA14 5SZ . |
| 11 | Normally , it would cost you £2.49 , but we 've 200 to give away to the first readers who write in . |
| 12 | We have six to give away to the first names drawn from the postbag on 7 March . |
| 13 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 14 | Alban Berg 's Piano Sonata Op. 1 comprises a single long movement ; it is almost continuously melodic , yet virtually the whole piece seems to be derived from rhythmic cells given out in the first phrase : Notice how cells a and c are really the same , c being an augmentation of a . |
| 15 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 16 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 17 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 18 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 19 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |