Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 3 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 4 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 5 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 6 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |
| 7 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 8 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
| 9 | As part of this learning exercise , a team from Brunel University has been asked to monitor and evaluate the first six field sites . |
| 10 | Let's wait and see the first one ah ? |
| 11 | For all our child protection inter-agency training we have got a standing agreement with private counsellors that if any professionals raise an issue that was personal to them , they could go away and have the first 12 counselling sessions free . ’ |
| 12 | But sadly , there is no indication that the GMA consortium which will design , operate and maintain the first of the new generation British trams in Manchester will share the looks of their Milanese counterparts . |
| 13 | The arrival of the " talkies " in 1927 aroused new interested when millions flocked to watch and hear the first talkie star , Al Jolson , in The Jazz Singer . |
| 14 | Vancouver-based Spectrum Signal Processing Inc has teamed up with Texas Instruments Inc and IBM Corp to develop a suite of multimedia products for the personal computer using the MWave standard : the first two will design , develop and test the first in a family of boards and IBM will apply the technology to multimedia markets such as video . |
| 15 | Vancouver-based Spectrum Signal Processing Inc has teamed up with Texas Instruments Inc and IBM Corp to develop a suite of multimedia products for the personal computer using the MWave standard : the first two will design , develop and test the first in a family of boards and IBM will apply the technology to multimedia markets such as video . |
| 16 | The nuns travel to South Africa this month to build and establish the first multi-racial convent in Mafikeng in the African homeland of Bophuthatswana . |
| 17 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I would hate for any of you to go away and say the first quarter is an indication and multiply that by four , ’ Reuter quotes finance director Dudley Eustace as saying . |