Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 2 | William got in first , and sat at the front . |
| 3 | A two storey building linked by a bridge to the main building , and which incorporated the Library was substantially modified to provide a Modern Languages Suite situated at First Floor Level , with additional Classrooms and Offices , located on the Ground Floor . |
| 4 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 5 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 6 | Wainfleet got in first . |
| 7 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 8 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 9 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 10 | There is an excellent chapter ‘ Must I exercise ? ’ which boasts a complimentary piece written from first hand experience , on the Medau method . |
| 11 | Scholastic children 's books shine at first half of year |
| 12 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 13 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 14 | I told him I wanted to know what labour felt like first . |
| 15 | A soft animal noise like gargling Dot thought at first must be Gloria 's breathing . |
| 16 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 17 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 18 | Faldo won at first extra hole . |
| 19 | The only significant association was an increased risk of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma associated with first pregnancy . |
| 20 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 21 | Form an equation and solve it to find how much Gregory had at first . |
| 22 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 23 | Some animals feed on living plants ; even if no animals come at first they may come later if plants begin to grow in the microhabitat . |
| 24 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 25 | With this in mind , the research proceeds by first constructing and estimating a multi-technology diffusion model . |
| 26 | Mr Edgar refused at first , and Linton sent him several more letters . |
| 27 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 28 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 29 | Gunning the engine , Trent slammed into first gear and eased the motor cycle diagonally upriver . |
| 30 | Yet in all save one of the cases decided at first instance , the court has held that the surety covenant does not touch and concern the land … |