Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right again on M completing the four sides of a small square and right into the first leg of the alley again . |
| 2 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 3 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 4 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 5 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 6 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | This can be seen in the demands for some form of parliamentary control of the making and carrying-out of foreign policy which became more frequent in one or two European states from the end of the nineteenth century and which reached a peak during and just after the First World War . |
| 8 | This chance can be reduced by arranging the line of the ropes to avoid sharp flakes and vice-like cracks , ensuring the anchor slings are long enough to prevent jamming against the rock , and finally by the first person down testing that the ropes are running freely through the anchors before the others abseil . |
| 9 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |
| 10 | After the first knowledge of the place , and still after the first meeting with Conchis , even as late as the Foulkes incident , I had wanted to talk about it — and to Alison . |
| 11 | Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life . |
| 12 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 13 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 14 | In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish . |
| 15 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 16 | Then it got quite boring , and it was really hard work , and now after the first year 's finished I 'm glad we thought of that because I 've done quite well . |
| 17 | The approach of the county council is based on certain principles , first of all it reflects the decision of the Secretary of State on the originally approved structure plan and particularly on the first alteration to the structure plans er in nineteen er eighty seven . |
| 18 | In practice , however , and particularly for the first years , what happened in labs was strictly controlled by the department . |
| 19 | ‘ Stair has his spyes in every quarter and even at the first posts on the several roads , ’ complained one irate conspirator , but often their work was easy for , as Bolingbroke observed , the most secret plans were a subject of gossip ‘ among women over their tea ’ . |
| 20 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |
| 21 | As in many other areas of rural life , events during and immediately after the First World War were to have a considerable effect upon the structure of rural housing . |
| 22 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 23 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 24 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 25 | With Between the relationship between language and gender becomes significant both thematically and structurally for the first time in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 26 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 27 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 28 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 29 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 30 | A dash down the road , and happily on the first song of Monsterland 's set has gone a-begging . |