Example sentences of "for [art] first [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Their hard-nosed ‘ method ’ rugby and its ultimate reward when they blitzed the Springboks for the first two-thirds of the test at Ellis Park to build an unassailable 20–3 lead . |
2 | Sodomy and birth control for the first two-thirds of the century were ‘ non nominandum inter christianos ’ , or ‘ crimes against nature ’ , too horrible to be named . |
3 | He planted Fleming over the square-leg boundary for the first six of the day , and hit two fours in his brisk 25 . |
4 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
5 | South African all-rounder David Callaghan , 27 , who missed most of last season fighting cancer , has been included in the squad for the first four of the seven one-day internationals against India . |
6 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
7 | The best cleavage is found at the central GpC ; all the ApT sites are cut at about 25% of this rate , except for the first ApT on the 5'-side which shows no detectable cleavage . |