Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 2 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |
| 3 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 4 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 5 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 6 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 7 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 8 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 9 | If , if you look at their work , for about the first hundred years after all of them , their work was widely , er , disparaged and rejected . |
| 10 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
| 11 | No you 're not but in fact studies show after about the first ten minutes , people are n't absorbing much anyway |
| 12 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 13 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 14 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
| 15 | It 's like in the first year the first year of the three year period you 've got an incentive , |
| 16 | However , if this is accepted , then we end up again with the concept of a particular as some kind of a temporally extended " peg " for qualities — a view which the theory was directed against in the first instance . |
| 17 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |
| 18 | One way of viewing these results is to suggest that what determines use of the passive rather than the active is selection of the acted-upon as the first noun to be mentioned . |
| 19 | Yeah this is what wan na I I just got onto like the first lesson of it . |
| 20 | Getting its timing just right — and hoping to be the Chips and Technologies Inc of its breed — Santa Clara , California start-up Nimbus Technologies Inc will next week come out with with the first chipset , targeted at the compatible builders , which is tailored for use with the superscalar Sparcs — Viking and HyperSparc — both due in the second half of the year , see above . |
| 21 | Erm and much of the point he 's making I think he 's covering , if you look closely , the resolution that we put , I should at this stage say I do accept the er the Charles suggested to start with into the first two lines . |
| 22 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 23 | This selection also includes several episodes not dealt with in the first half of this book , but which are an integral part of El Cid 's legend . |
| 24 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 25 | Basic genetic analysis and chromosome theory are dealt with in the first year , while biochemical , molecular and physiological aspects of gene action are emphasised in the second year . |
| 26 | but people chuck all this stuff at you and you , Ooh what 's going on ? now if you 're not very very sure of what you 're working with in the first place |
| 27 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 28 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 29 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 30 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |