Example sentences of "first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first birds were beginning to tune up . |
| 2 | The first birds , usually males , arrive in southern Britain in the second half of April , arriving a little later further north . |
| 3 | Richard did not turn up until dawn , the first birds chirping over the lush , dewy college lawns . |
| 4 | The first birds we see are a group of turnstones and a redshank , busily feeding in the park below the house , probing into the area of damaged grass where my neighbour 's sheep are fed . |
| 5 | And one of the first birds we saw ? |
| 6 | Each year brings more exciting ‘ firsts ’ for the reserve ; first wintering birds , first breeding pairs , first birds of passage . |
| 7 | The first birds were waking ; the dawn chorus began . |
| 8 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 9 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 10 | Ditton , who started by using the lavatory as a place to make notes secretly , took his first notes on lavatory paper . |
| 11 | At the top of the first sheet she wrote the subject of her first notes . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , it was her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother , who sounded one of the first notes of caution . |
| 13 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 14 | He stiffened his legs , put the fiddle under his chin , and sounded the first notes of ‘ The Manchester Martyrs ’ , a song in praise of three Fenians who had been captured in England and hanged over fifty years before . |
| 15 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 16 | They suggested that the unified courses could be offered from 1983 , with the first exams in 1985 . |
| 17 | [ In the event , the first GCSE courses were introduced in 1986 , and the first exams took place in 1988 . |
| 18 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 19 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 20 | As the Dwarfs approached the first ranks of Night Goblins a massive whoop went up amongst the greenskins , and from out of their formation charged Night Goblin Fanatics whirling balls and chains . |
| 21 | ‘ When the first ranks are within range , hold your volley until I signal . |
| 22 | The first remits to the ACPS were reparation by the offender to the victim for the harm he had done , and non-custodial penalties . |
| 23 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 24 | What were your first contacts with the music of Sibelius ? |
| 25 | One of my first contacts there was Frank Mah , who with his clever wife Mary , became close personal and family friends for many years . |
| 26 | The Independent Company 's constant patrolling — ‘ pigi , pigi ’ as the natives called it , for whenever asked , an Australian was always going ( pigi ) somewhere — was extended eastward and the first contacts made with the Portuguese on the east coast during May . |
| 27 | My first contacts with Friends of the Earth in this region sort of what six years ago was Harlow . |
| 28 | ‘ Those first contacts with the west inspired groups to search out their own roots and national identification . |
| 29 | That is not a complete explanation for Athens ' continuing preoccupation with Sicily , which culminated in the great expedition of 415 , but may be relevant to the first contacts . |
| 30 | Once the first contacts were made , the fieldworker attempted to fulfil certain goals which are outlined only briefly here ( see Labov 1981 : 8 for details ) . |