Example sentences of "and [verb] at the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 2 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 3 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 4 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 5 | Melanie thought they did and froze at the first breath of pity , summoning all her resources to act coolly . |