Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 2 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 3 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 4 | Vivian Endicott Barnett , ex-Guggenheim curator and author of the ongoing catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky 's watercolours , has put together the first major exhibition of the artist 's work on paper . |
| 5 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 6 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 7 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 8 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 9 | If the decision is made to stop then the first step is to advise your customer 's buyer of the situation promptly . |
| 10 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 11 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 12 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 13 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 14 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 15 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 16 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 17 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 18 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 19 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 20 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 21 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 22 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 23 | The Commission could have put forward the first of these amendments separately from the Fifth Directive , and may have chosen its course in order to revive consideration of the Fifth Directive as a whole . |
| 24 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 25 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 26 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 27 | Being a firm believer in the ‘ start 'em young ’ policy but desperate for any player I can get to fill out the first team , I have completely overhauled the youth squad . |
| 28 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 29 | Working against time , David Whitaker is believed to have put together the first of his two fifty page scripts in one afternoon taking the opportunity to introduce viewers further to the characters of the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan , and to make more known about the TARDIS space/time ship . |
| 30 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |