Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my first hours there I was severely tortured . |
| 2 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 3 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 4 | Another example , I 'm afraid , of the impertinence of conductors in supposing that composers who had second thoughts were necessarily hankering after their first versions all the time . |
| 5 | One winter 's night about midnight , after his first perambulations , Durham went to the porter 's cellar at the station to have supper . |
| 6 | 9 days after his first symptoms there was an increase in creatine kinase ( 1281 U/L ) , a high proportion of which was isoenzyme B ( 97 U/L ) , indicating myocardial origin . |
| 7 | Flaps are described in detail for the many pilots who do not fully understand how to make the best use of them , and who may be nervous about their first flights in a flapped machine . |
| 8 | But with the confidence of youth she does not want to wait beyond Barcelona for her first Games medal . |
| 9 | The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer . |
| 10 | During her first weeks she was noisy and disruptive in class . |
| 11 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 12 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 13 | As a result , they lost tons of money when punk rockers trashed concert halls during their first shows . |
| 14 | The traditional approach to library orientation is the so-called guided tour , in which students are given a short tour of the library , during their first weeks as university students . |
| 15 | Students receive an overwhelming mass of information during their first weeks at college or university , so this is perhaps not the best time to distribute library handouts . |
| 16 | We excluded such cells from our analysis and studied 100 of the remaining cells , chosen at random , through their first divisions . |
| 17 | Founded by IBM 's famous Scots-Irish Watsons , Greenock foundered for its first years , until IBM learned that the best people to run a factory in Scotland were usually Scots . |
| 18 | The eldest boy was endowed with the family name of John and the over-high expectations that the family had for their first sons . |
| 19 | We arrived as keen as a couple of puppies out for their first walkies , full of fun and raring to go ! |
| 20 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 21 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 22 | " Vocational " subjects — like medicine , engineering , law or accountancy — prepare students more directly for their first jobs . |
| 23 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 24 | ENGLAND swept aside defending champions Ireland at Hoylake yesterday to stay on course for their first men 's amateur Home International title for four years . |
| 25 | Su Ragazzi kept on course for their first men 's league and cup by qualifying for their cup final at Meadowbank on 28 March . |
| 26 | This must seem a promising start for RDS for which first receivers appeared only in 1987 . |
| 27 | One of my first articles on machine knitting ( before MKM was even born ) was called ‘ Do n't blame the machine ; it 's the operator that 's at fault ’ . |
| 28 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 29 | If ever I get to Heaven ( which my friends tell me is unlikely ) one of my first requests will be to witness The perfect Draft . |
| 30 | one of my first artists came through a very old friend called Richard Ogden who now manages paul McCartney . |