Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you read the whole lot , or read the first one and the last one and guess the rest ? |
| 2 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 3 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 4 | Although desfoutre is a perfectly proper grammatical construction , it is , of course , in real-world terms impossible to be " unfucked " , except perhaps in the mind of a naive woman who imagines that a second foutre can annul or return the first … or does she ? |
| 5 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 6 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 7 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 8 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 9 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 10 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 11 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 12 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 13 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 14 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 15 | Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales . |
| 16 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 17 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 18 | They drove past the two figures and Terry sounded his horn that played the first few bars of the Star Spangled Banner . |
| 19 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 20 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 21 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 22 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 23 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 24 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 25 | The second XB-70 ( 62–207 , tail number 20207 ) flew on July 17 , 1965 , with many of the ‘ bugs ’ that plagued the first example ironed-out and exceeded Mach 1.4 at 42,000 feet on the first flight . |
| 26 | No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do . |
| 27 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 28 | One particular wolf or hunting dog is not always the individual that takes the first grip on its victim . |
| 29 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 30 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |