Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [adj] pages " in BNC.

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1	I was fine for the first few pages .
2	For the first 160 pages I was disappointed .
3	She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read .
4	He reached across and picked one up , flicking through the first few pages .
5	Among the audience cited in the introduction are the ‘ environmentally concerned general public , but I fear that this growing band will be lost within the first 20 pages .
6	Indeed , it is rather illuminating to discover that within the first few pages of her book — and before she has even introduced her own work — she peremptorily dismisses the idea that genius is akin to madness .
7	Although the hero met his death within the first 30 pages of the trilogy , the vast and mysterious intricacies of his ‘ Seldon Plan ’ still amazed the reader after 700 .
8	Herodotus 's account of the ‘ true ’ history of the Medic wars can be read as an elaborate repetition or working out of the ‘ truth ’ about misappropriation encapsulated in ‘ fictional ’ form in the first two pages .
9	WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
10	The word scandalous is repeated four times in the first three pages .
11	This should be required reading for all tourists to Kenya — though they would need no coercion beyond the first thirty pages or so .
12	Over the first nine pages of the book , George appears to be mean and irritable towards Lennie , and seems to treat him very heartlessly , but throughout the book we are shown that the two men depend on one another very much , and they have a very strong relationship .
13	you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's

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