Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 4 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 5 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 6 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 7 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 9 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 10 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 11 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 12 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 13 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 14 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 15 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 16 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 17 | Instead , a message came through during the first part of the show that Sigourney loved Julian , and was asking specifically to be seated next to him . |
| 18 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 19 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 20 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 21 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 22 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 23 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 24 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 25 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 26 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 27 | Brian Cox , who runs the operation , says : ‘ Anyone coming in for the first time is going to start by taking on what 's already there . |
| 28 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 29 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
| 30 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |