Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 3 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 4 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 5 | All my motions on the first day . |
| 6 | I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 7 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 8 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 9 | This gave warning to the outside interests and to members and gave them time to gather their thoughts and explain their views before the first reading , which was purely formal but provided for the printing of the bill . |
| 10 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 11 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 12 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 13 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 14 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |
| 15 | Some others , however , like the earl of Sandwich , sent their sons in the first instance to the local grammar school . |
| 16 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 17 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 18 | World At One and PM increased their ratings in the first week of the campaign and Today maintained its 1.3 million audience . |
| 19 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 20 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 21 | The clock was installed in 1920 with money raised by the parishioners with the intention of creating a long-lasting memorial to those who served and gave their lives in the First World War . |
| 22 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 23 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 24 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 25 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 26 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 27 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 28 | To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time . |
| 29 | It will trace the roots of nationalist sentiments from their beginnings during the First World War , through to the election of the first national government in the history of the islands , the Peoples Nationalist Movement , in 1956 . |
| 30 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |