Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
2 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
3 | This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well . |
4 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
5 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
6 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
7 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
8 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
9 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
10 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
11 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
12 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
13 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
14 | Slowly , with her fists clenched tightly and her lips pursed , she put one foot and then the other out on to the first stepping-stone . |
15 | Now , in a mood of heady exhilaration , a delicious scenario flashed in his mind ; the school drop-out , on his way to take delivery of his own Jumbo Jet , literally dropping back in during a First XI cricket match with two of the most celebrated test cricketers in the world in tow . |
16 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
17 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
18 | Well I went back up to the first one and I said you need three one hundred and twenties to get to three hundred and sixty so |
19 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |