Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first of " in BNC.
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| 31 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 32 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 33 | GEORGE Loughlin , of Making Space , will be giving advice on schizophrenia at Ellesmere Port council offices on June 15 between 10am and 3pm in the first of a series of events organised by the Community Health Council . |
| 34 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 35 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 36 | an and we 're gon na get it out by the first of June . |
| 37 | Out by the first of June ? |
| 38 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 39 | Close pal Ince will lead the rookie side that Taylor plans to name late today for the first of three US Cup games . |
| 40 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 41 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |
| 42 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 43 | ESSEX champions Braintree 's challenge for promotion to the East Super League started well in the first of three play-off matches against Pelicans , from King 's Lynn . |
| 44 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 45 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 46 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |