Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 2 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 3 | Following a general election the first task of the new legislature was to choose the country 's President and Vice-President from amongst its four at-large senators . |
| 4 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 5 | WHAT A statistical thrill the first day of the fourth Test gave us ! |
| 6 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |