Example sentences of "back [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 2 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 3 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
| 4 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 5 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 6 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 7 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 8 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 9 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 10 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 11 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 12 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 13 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 14 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |