Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 2 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 3 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 4 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 5 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 6 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 7 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 8 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 9 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 10 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 11 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 12 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 13 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 14 | Unless he has a part to play he is unlikely to attend after the first appearance . |
| 15 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 16 | The syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with the necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a slight tendency to increase during the first six days whereas the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis decreased . |
| 17 | We also thought that on the feast of St Thomas More , June 24th it would be a good idea to celebrate the feast in the evening in the school hall when we can all gather to meet for the first or last time and say ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ Good-bye ’ as appropriate . |
| 18 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 19 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 20 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 21 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 22 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 23 | The former Rangers striker has been recalled to the squad to face in-form Chelsea in the Coca-Cola Cup tonight and is set to appear for the first time in two months . |
| 24 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 25 | If he was the sole breadwinner , you may have to go out to work for the first time . |
| 26 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 27 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 28 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 29 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 30 | The man who inspired many of the staff to come in the first place was Seymour Papert . |