Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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1 | There are schools that give parents detailed questionnaires to complete on their first visit . |
2 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
3 | That 's how long it took the 18-year-old to score with his first touch on his Roker Park debut . |
4 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
5 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
6 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
7 | If you move to the US without a prearranged position , at least ensure that you have a place to stay for your first few months . |
8 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
9 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
10 | When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast . |
11 | Their relative slowness to act in their first two years in office was partly due to the continuing revenue problem . |
12 | He had already gone to his new job in Wensleydale , with a promise to return on his first free Sunday . |
13 | THE McDonald 's fast-food restaurants in Singapore now have a certificate to use halal meat , allowing Muslims to dig into their first Big Mac |