Example sentences of "come [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year . |
| 2 | Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances . |
| 3 | The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust . |
| 4 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 5 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 6 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 7 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 8 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 9 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 10 | The only casualty came in the first week after the ceasefire last August . |
| 11 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 12 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 13 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 14 | Then , just short of his hall at Forteviot , the King came across the first group of injured . |
| 15 | But , for a reader coming for the first time to the subject , this can not give a sense of the rightness , diversity and very real differences in feminist art history and criticism over the last couple of decades . |
| 16 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 17 | As part of the open market , blanket legislation comes into effect across the EC , although the changes mainly apply to the large manufacturers , which come under the first tier of the three-tier approval system . |
| 18 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 19 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 20 | This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 . |
| 21 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |