Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 2 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 3 | Momentarily glimpsed would be nineteen-year-old Richard Dreyfuss appearing in his first movie as a Berkeley student , with one line : ‘ Shall I get the cops ? |
| 4 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 5 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 6 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 7 | In a surprise result , Burundians voted in their first democratic election since 1962 to boot out their military president , Pierre Buyoya , in favour of a banker , Melchior Ndadaye . |
| 8 | Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year . |
| 9 | Professor Brunsden said that more than 10 per cent of children are dying in their first year . |
| 10 | The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) . |
| 11 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 12 | He ordered a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich in the cafe a few doors down and sank his weary limbs down to wait , revelling in his first cigarette of the day . |
| 13 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 14 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 15 | We can see how this occurred in our first two case studies . |
| 16 | Here is the metrical model of " Diffugere nives " , as presented in its first two lines : In J.B. Leishman 's translation ( Leishman 1956 ) this opening couplet is rendered as follows : The strophe continues : Leishman 's skill in adapting the metre is much to be commended ; there is great ingenuity , particularly in the adaptation of the English ing-forms ( " transforming " , " diminishing " , " hurrying " ) to the dactylic Graeco-Latin rhythms . |
| 17 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 18 | ‘ Raising pupils awareness is especially important as so many young people are injured in their first few days at work . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 21 | Second , about one-third of untrained new entrants should have the opportunity of an additional year 's training on the same scale as they receive in their first year ; together these might lead to a formal qualification . |
| 22 | A loose coupled freight hauled by Nos. 76028/29 was derailed at speed on this point ( featured in our first volume ) and the eastbound track was never reinstated . |
| 23 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 24 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 25 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 26 | What you 've said in your first paragraph is absolutely correct , stop . |
| 27 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 28 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 29 | InterCity turned in its first profit in 1988–9 , only a year after transitional support was withdrawn . |
| 30 | Unless there is a cock-up against Costa Rica , who they meet in their first match , Andy Roxburgh 's team should reach the second phase . |