Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 2 | For all the increase , over 21,000 people left Sussex altogether in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 4 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 5 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 6 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 7 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 8 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 9 | Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson . |
| 10 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 12 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 13 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 14 | The game was settled with two quick goals midway through the first half.Liz Hannam reports . |
| 15 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 16 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 17 | Logical members include Tadpole Technology plc , Harris Computer Systems Division , Groupe Bull SA and Thomson CSF : they 're being asked to kick in $1m apiece in the first year , the fee will drop in the second . |
| 18 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 19 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 20 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 21 | Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval . |
| 22 | In other words , the logarithm of the price level , p , appears on the right-hand side instead of the first derivative of its natural value . |
| 23 | Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County . |
| 24 | But hard graft is rewarded at St James ' Park tonight as the First Division leaders pursue a £1 million bonus . |
| 25 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 26 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 27 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 28 | There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls . |
| 29 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 30 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |