Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 2 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 3 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 4 | James Sadler made only one subsequent aerial visit to the region , that being to Deken 's Lodge , Pickworth , near Stamford , which was the termination point for the first flight from Nottingham made in 1813 . |
| 5 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 6 | However , from the early 1870s the British economy was beginning to face serious competitive pressure for the first time from the expanding economies of Western Europe and the United States . |
| 7 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 8 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 9 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 10 | Probaby the most hopeful news is that Brazil , the world 's largest Catholic nation is going to put AIDS and sexual education onto the curriculum of state schools for the first time from February this year . |
| 11 | A decree issued on Sept. 16 stated that the profits of all wholly Omani-owned companies were to be taxed for the first time from the end of 1989 . |
| 12 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 13 | In January and February , three seminars were held for centres that will be piloting general SVQs for the first time from next session . |
| 14 | The module , which will run for the first time from February 1994 , offers students an opportunity to spend time working with a voluntary/ community organisation . |
| 15 | And it is that grouping , the J R P , that have got agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigre People 's Liberation Front to move food for the first time from the Ethiopian government areas into the areas controlled by the Tigre People 's Liberation Front . |
| 16 | As previously announced , new single ‘ Teeth Grinder ’ , which serves as the first taster from the LP , is issued through A&M on October 19 . |
| 17 | ‘ Beautiful Pigeon ’ is backed with two exclusive new tracks , ‘ Beeside ’ and ‘ Home Survival Kit ’ , and serves as the first taster from their forthcoming ‘ Eva Luna ’ LP due on October 24 . |
| 18 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 19 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 20 | His opponent , Mr Jones wins each of his three games off the first advantage from deuce . |
| 21 | WILL SUTHERLAND , skipper of one of the yachts in the British Steel Challenge round-the-world race , has resigned after the first leg from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro for personal reasons . |
| 22 | The European Council has taken note of the first report from the relevant committee on the implementation of the European plan to combat drugs . |
| 23 | It was the occasion of the first letter from Michael Ramsey which is preserved : |
| 24 | The Grainger Park middleweight , normally a fine jabber , was under severe pressure throughout the first round from hard-hitting Jason Sharp of Sharlston Colliery , who continually out-jabbed Exley and took every opportunity to harry him . |
| 25 | Like the first letter from Mrs Girdlestone it was short and simple , and like that letter ( but now the feeling was stronger ) it seemed to look up at me and to say , ‘ I am in code , you know . |
| 26 | De Gaulle 's political career can be conceptualized in terms of two cycles , with the first stretching from 1940 to 1946 , and the second from 1958 to 1969 . |
| 27 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |
| 28 | IF THE Chancellor expected consistent advice backed by irresistible logic from the first submission from his seven wise men , he will have been disappointed by their 80-page text plus statistical appendix yesterday . |
| 29 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 30 | The most notable incident in the first half from a Leeds point of view was when Strachan placed a beautiful 40 yard cross field pass through the LOI defence onto the on running Wallace . |