Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 2 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 3 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 4 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 5 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 6 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 7 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 8 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 9 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
| 10 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 11 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |