Example sentences of "[art] first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first few dates when he had kissed and cuddled her and only touched her breasts through her blouse , he had started slipping his hand inside . |
| 2 | On the first few dates or longer , some young couples are too embarrassed to talk about it , let alone go and do anything about it , and girls do n't want to be seen as anticipating sex and run the risk of being labelled as slags . |
| 3 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 4 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 5 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 6 | He watched the first few matches tee off , then joined the trickle of early spectators following the Red route round the course . |
| 7 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
| 8 | For the first few minutes outside , I used the torch , until the blackness behind the dunes turned to a deep red . |
| 9 | In fact , after the first few minutes of wriggling and giggling , he began to enjoy it . |
| 10 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
| 11 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 12 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |
| 13 | The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end . |
| 14 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 15 | In the first few minutes of their greetings , the real purpose of Nora 's trip was forgotten by them both . |
| 16 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
| 17 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 18 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 19 | As it was , the first few minutes of the talk was written by Intel 's legal department cautioning that patent applications covered the material about to be discussed . |
| 20 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
| 21 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
| 22 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
| 23 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 24 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |
| 25 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 26 | Only good thing was Dorigo ( apart from the first few minutes ) who played brill . |
| 27 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 28 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 29 | In that summer of 1940 the first few families began to leave town and come to live in their country ville outside Fontanellato . |
| 30 | After the first few sentences he became bewildered , agitated , thunder-struck . |