Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents exchanged glances , looks that seemed to remember a long wait for a first and , as it turned out , an only child . |
| 2 | So welcome to the first edition of CCG People , which we hope will tell you all you need to know about the people that make CCG such a success . |
| 3 | Yeah , but they only pay for the first one . |
| 4 | 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) . |
| 5 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 6 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 7 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 8 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 9 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |
| 10 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 11 | Just look at the first page . |
| 12 | Now , physically close for the first time , he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her , living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing . |
| 13 | We have 1000 bottles of Selsun Soft Conditioner to give away free to the first 1000 readers whose names and addresses are drawn from the postbag after October 31 1989 . |
| 14 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 15 | And they normally occur on the first Thursday in May . |
| 16 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 17 | Yeah if that one , that Elizabeth Terrace one is , is the one I think it is which is the one fairly near the end in that in that bottom , bottom row I think the live in the first one , they still live in the first one on the corner . |
| 18 | Fifty four children had intermittent or continuing mild symptoms not requiring further prednisone during the first year . |
| 19 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 20 | Some of these hawthorns , with their gnarled , twisted and burnished trunks , probably date from the first enclosure of the fields five or six generations ago . |
| 21 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 22 | Foreign Offices of a modern kind , specialized in their functions , subdivided ( usually on a largely geographical basis ) into departments with still more specialized duties and employing considerable numbers of experts of all kinds , now appear for the first time in the major European capitals . |
| 23 | And the DUP lost its stronghold in Ballymena , dropping two seats and giving the Ulster Unionists overall control for the first time in 15 years . |
| 24 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 25 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 26 | South Africa 's Muslims , rich in educational and managerial skills , now have for the first time a clear political objective of social justice . |
| 27 | Since , for the purpose of this exercise , we are supposing that the December 1983 and November 1985 rates are unknown , we simply copy on the first and last values , 40 and 55 , for January 1984 and October 1985 . |
| 28 | If you would like to know more about these or other courses run by the University , please write in the first instance to the Editor at the address on page 3 . |
| 29 | If you would like to know more , please write in the first instance to the Editor at the address on page 3 . |
| 30 | We then add on a first dynamic element : ( b ) a reservation sales strategy , with a constant reservation price . |