Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.

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1 QPR1 Tottenham2 GORDON DURIE struck a well executed but unlikely winner to guide Tottenham to First Division safety in a pulsating London derby .
2 BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year .
3 Local residents were given an opportunity to present evidence at first hand when the Committee sat in Cardiff .
4 Instead of splitting hydrogen sulphide , they developed the ability to split water by first trapping solar energy in green pigments .
5 The economy will move directly from point A to point C without first stopping off at point B : no quantity response ensues from the monetary impulse .
6 Woman-centred feminism 's predominantly cultural form in psychology , allied to the discipline 's traditional lack of interest in sexuality , allowed woman-centred psychology to ignore homosexuality at first ; Miller ( 1976 ) equated sexuality with heterosexuality .
7 If only more leading Bolsheviks had left their ivory tower in the Kremlin in early NEP in order to examine Russia at first hand , as Yakovlev did , the reifications that poured out from their pens and mouths might not have succeeded in obscuring the realities of actual life in the 1920s .
8 A command allowing the user to enter lines without first typing in the number of the line .
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