Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 2 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 3 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 4 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 5 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 6 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 7 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 8 | We , at any rate , are not going to fire the first shot . |
| 9 | Agassi , who already has a rich choice of cars , including a Ferrari and a Lamborghini , acquired his new machine in Hawaii , while waiting to play the first round David Cup match in January . |
| 10 | I think that one 's saying that in order to resolve one problem , their may be unforeseen and , one hopes temporary , minor problems which emerge in consequence of attempting to resolve the first problem . |
| 11 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 12 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 13 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 14 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
| 15 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 16 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 17 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 18 | Bernard had needed little persuading to buy the first company aeroplane , a twin-engined Piper Navajo for £95,000 , which carried six passengers and two pilots . |
| 19 | Mr Orbach said the company was ‘ beginning to hear the first sounds of improved trading conditions from some customers , ’ which could mean growth in 1992 . |
| 20 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 21 | Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Mike McLeod will be aiming to become the first veteran to win tonight 's Golden Wonder Blaydon Race . |
| 22 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 23 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 24 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 25 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 26 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 27 | The Sinfonia continues its policy of including a Scottish work in each of its concerts , having given the first performance the previous evening in Lanark of Nigel Don 's Suite for Cello and Strings . |
| 28 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 29 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 30 | The country outfit with big ideas , having enjoyed a first season on their £400,000 synthetic pitch at Belfast Road , celebrate next Saturday with a star-studded game between Ireland and an internationally-strengthened home team . |