Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 2 | Water plants first thing in the morning , or last thing at night , so that it does n't evaporate , but goes straight to the roots . |
| 3 | What would you do to reverse the direction of the ammeter needles first movement , B ? |
| 4 | Oh well he probably does n't trust you whipper snatchers first time I actually carried my licence with me . |
| 5 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 6 | AGE SHIPS FIRST 32-BIT X-SERVER FOR NT |
| 7 | Autumn Stakes first semi-final 410 — Linwood Lad , Thornhill Ceili , Ballylough Team , Kentish Rose , Brown 's Bay , Tornaroy Bull . |
| 8 | In Warsaw , meanwhile , office rents first rose in anticipation of a similar flood from the West and then fell when the westerners failed to appear . |
| 9 | Oddly enough , production problems first time around on this episode , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ , occasioned it to be completely remounted and rerecorded between Episodes Three and Four , the only time this has happened in Doctor Who 's entire history aside from the remount of the pilot ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 10 | Three drivers will be burning their L-plates tonight after passing their driving tests first time , but , as John Kane , reports besides needing good road sense the men had to be pretty nifty with a shovel full of coal . |