Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 2 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 3 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 4 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 5 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 6 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 7 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 8 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 9 | And so to the first of our summer sporting specials . |
| 10 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 11 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 12 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 13 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 14 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 15 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 16 | Inspector Morse returns to our screens tonight in the first of what will be the penultimate series . |
| 17 | And the entire thing was preceded by a death at one of the near farms , just before the first of the storms came . |
| 18 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 19 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 20 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 21 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 22 | Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though . |
| 23 | Still on the first of these two categories , more can be said about Potidaia from the Athenian Tribute Lists . |
| 24 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 25 | It is to be regretted that teachers dwell disproportionately on the first of these conventional classroom for the sake of a permanent record . |
| 26 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 27 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 28 | They moved on , following it up to the first of the ruined buildings . |
| 29 | I hope this does n't cause you a problem , but the rates of benefit have changed very slightly since the first of October ninety one . |
| 30 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |