Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the first " in BNC.

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1 President Roh Tae Woo became the first South Korean head of state to make an official trip to the Soviet Union when he arrived in Moscow on Dec. 13 at the beginning of a four-day visit .
2 If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’
3 While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year .
4 You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on .
5 We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today .
6 The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows .
7 That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century .
8 If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen .
9 If , for example , your rows are labelled with numbers which ascend in steps of five , you just show Excel the first few ( 5 , 10 , 15 ) and it will continue the labels ( 20 , 25 , 30 , and so on ) for as many rows as you wish .
10 Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base .
11 Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East .
12 However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first .
13 I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side .
14 ‘ Being very lazy by nature , I enjoy making the first sketches , but the practical precision , the mathematical measuring necessary to carry out the design and the extreme neatness required , both of which I am very bad at , I find irksome .
15 Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together .
16 Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater .
17 This program is only a playable demo , which means you only get to play the first level .
18 I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it .
19 so that I could actually enjoy it more this time because it 's in , so much of a blur when you get married the first time that you 're caught up with it and you do n't really see what happens , I would like to get married all over again .
20 On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw .
21 Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack .
22 TIP : If you construct filter chambers from blocks , try laying the first three courses flat , the remainder upright .
23 There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word .
24 ‘ I do like the first Suede single , and I love the second Ride album .
25 If you have n't already chosen to pay an excess , worthwhile premium savings can be made if you choose to pay the first £100 of claims made under the Buildings or Contents sections of the Policy .
26 Discounted premiums are available if you choose to pay the first £100 of all other claims under the Buildings and/or Contents Section of your Policy .
27 AND 7 ½%; DISCOUNT If you choose to pay the first £50 of each claim .
28 7 ½%; Discount off Buildings , Contents and Personal Possessions premiums if you choose to pay the first £50 of each claim .
29 Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right .
30 If you wish put the first letter of the word , too .
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