Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 32 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 33 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 34 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 35 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 36 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 37 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 38 | However the continuation of active addictive disease is even more boring and oppressive and the initial enthusiasm usually matures gradually within the first year of recovery . |
| 39 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 40 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 41 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 42 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 43 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 44 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 45 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 46 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 47 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 48 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 49 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 50 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 51 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 52 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 53 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 54 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 55 | To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 . |
| 56 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 57 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 58 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 59 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 60 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |