Example sentences of "[v-ing] the first [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 2 | It would be nice to find that the campanile is original Romanesque , but alas it is as modern as 1820 , replacing the first that had long since collapsed . |
| 3 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 4 | A comparison with later styles shows the way in which armour developed in the years separating the first and third ventures into the Holy Land . |
| 5 | In the 1950s Khrushchev 's attempt to do so by de-throning Stalin and mending fences with Tito torpedoed two client regimes , Bierut 's in Poland and Rákosi 's in Hungary , whose authority derived as much from venerating the first as from anathematising the second.is |
| 6 | 2 xy = a ² or y = occupying the first and third quadrants . |
| 7 | but I , he says he did n't , I mean , since she 's had the chop , but between having the first and then having the twins , the second , she went back to work then at the Building Society , so she 's got a cheaper mortgage , so why did n't they pay some off then ? |
| 8 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |