Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 2 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 3 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 4 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 5 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 6 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 7 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 8 | Let's wait and see the first one ah ? |
| 9 | Mountain View , California-based portable communications devices developer Eo Inc duly announced its partnership with AT&T Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp to design , build and market the first generation of what it is calling personal communicators . |
| 10 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 11 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 12 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 13 | London agency Media & Design Associates has written and produced the first issue of a special twice-a-year publication for Taylor Woodrow pension fund members in the wake of the Robert Maxwell scandal . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal held that both claims could not succeed and disallowed the first ( that being the smaller claim ) . |
| 15 | Originally named the Laboratory Equipment Corporation LECO is based in St Joseph , Michigan , USA and started life by developing and introducing the first volumetric carbon determinator for the iron and steel industry . |
| 16 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 17 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 18 | He was a pioneer photographer , inventing and selling the first popular exposure meter , and his natural empathy with the countryside is reflected in his photographs . |
| 19 | As part of this learning exercise , a team from Brunel University has been asked to monitor and evaluate the first six field sites . |
| 20 | Turning to the specific example of a continuous square wave of amplitude a and period T , it can be represented in terms of by The validity of this particular harmonic representation is demonstrated in figure 11.1 where it is shown that summing the first three terms of expression ( 11.2 ) produces a waveform not far removed from square . |
| 21 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 22 | Section 4 describes the wealth and asset return measures used and presents the first stage regression used to obtain instruments for expected returns . |
| 23 | Although desfoutre is a perfectly proper grammatical construction , it is , of course , in real-world terms impossible to be " unfucked " , except perhaps in the mind of a naive woman who imagines that a second foutre can annul or return the first … or does she ? |
| 24 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 25 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 26 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 27 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
| 28 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
| 29 | The nuns travel to South Africa this month to build and establish the first multi-racial convent in Mafikeng in the African homeland of Bophuthatswana . |
| 30 | Continue and take the first left after the flyover into Westminster Way . |