Example sentences of "[adv prt] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly .
2 Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa .
3 The CIT thanks Transport Development Group for the fine portrait of Philip Henman which now hangs on the first floor landing at 80 Portland Place .
4 He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier .
5 Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis .
6 practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar .
7 Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin .
8 This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity .
9 I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed .
10 By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited .
11 They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches .
12 Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table .
13 Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) .
14 He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night .
15 She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step .
16 Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol .
17 Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked .
18 I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings .
19 Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand .
20 If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat .
21 Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son
22 When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said .
23 ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’
24 He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere .
25 However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen .
26 When a popular war hero emerged , like Lt William Leefe Robinson , awarded the VC in 1916 for shooting down the first enemy airship over British soil , the jobbing printers , metal benders and celluloid crimpers worked overtime .
27 But what was the nature of the opposition , in particular from the Municipal Alliance , which had in 1900 brought down the first labour council in West Ham ?
28 They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence .
29 She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat .
30 And then Jayne filled in the first day .
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