Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a minute the first French skirmishers ran into sight . |
| 2 | After a week the first cracks were appearing within the group and between the group and its organisers . |
| 3 | Everyone forms some sort of impression of a person the first time that they meet . |
| 4 | ‘ It was really hard , because as a rule the first one you do is the one you 'll really believe in . |
| 5 | By the time I returned from Australia , the KH965 had been launched by Brother , Manchester and within a fortnight the first dealer tuition was taking place . |
| 6 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 7 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 8 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 9 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 10 | For example , in the following sentence : Since the last time we met when we had that huge dinner Ive been on a diet the first two tone-units present information which is relevant to what the speaker is saying , but which is not something new and unknown to the listener . |
| 11 | No but the trouble is when I go on a diet the first place I |