Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |
| 2 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 3 | ( Thus a child who did not reach the first birthday is counted as zero year old ; from 12 completed months to 23 completed months as one year old , etc . ) |
| 4 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 5 | Lord Hope did not accept the first submission on behalf of the pursuers , which was to the effect that when the completed application form was sent to the building society the pursuers had accepted an offer made by the society to consider the application , as , unlike in Hunter v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Co , 19O9SC ( HL ) 3O , the building society in the present case had not given any undertaking to consider the application and were under no obligation to do so . |
| 6 | How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ? |
| 7 | At times , house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline . |
| 8 | You do not enter the first forest for fun , for adventure . |
| 9 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 10 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 11 | Although much has been made of the fact that Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott did n't become the first overseas player to represent the county , Indian batsman Sachin Tedulkar confirms a long term policy : overseas players are now welcome in Yorkshire cricket . |
| 12 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 13 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 14 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 15 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 16 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 17 | ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’ |
| 18 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt stiff and lethargic and my mind was n't tuned into the job — I definitely did n't enjoy the first ten minutes . |
| 20 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 21 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 22 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 23 | I did n't take the first bus , or the second . |
| 24 | Sorry I I simply did n't hear the first part of that lot sir . |
| 25 | Just in case you did n't hear the first time . |
| 26 | Mary did n't resist the first time — did n't resist when he kissed her and she felt the strange , hard stubble on his face , nor when he moved on her , not even when he hurt her . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't suppose the first of May was chosen by chance do you ? |
| 28 | do n't want the first wee of the mor |
| 29 | We do n't want the first one in the morning . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've caught on very quickly to some of the interesting things Brownies do , but do n't forget the first thing Brownies learn to do is to give . ’ |