Example sentences of "[to-vb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many sailors before us our soggy footsteps led up the little hill to the Café Sport to sink the first beer in many days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 4 | Parrott , the UK snooker champ , scored a tremendous 6-5 victory over the world champion and world No 1 to claim the first title of the season and pick up a £25,000 cheque . |
| 5 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 6 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 7 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 8 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 9 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 10 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 11 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 12 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 13 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 14 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 15 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 16 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 17 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 18 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 19 | It is plausible to see the first point as spelling out the root problem for a philosophical account of knowledge , and the second as linked to Peirce 's anti-naturalism . |
| 20 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 21 | The feature close would have the value + for , , , , and we could also use this for and if we adopt the convention that most of the features will be used to classify the first part of the diphthongs . |
| 22 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 23 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 24 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 25 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 26 | Such commentators have , however , singularly failed to provide evidence to support the first argument , that there were radical changes in behaviour . |
| 27 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 28 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 29 | The meeting started badly when Khieu Samphan refused to attend the first session , opposing the seating arrangement which treated the NGC as a single body , rather than three separate , equal groups . |
| 30 | President Elias Hrawi , Prime Minister Umar Karami and the president of the National Assembly , Hussain al-Hussaini , visited Damascus on Oct. 17 to attend the first session of the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council . |