Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 2 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 3 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 4 | The staircase stood in a garden overlooked by both the first floor and a ground-floor flat let to the plaintiffs . |
| 5 | There was improvement in all Commercial lines when compared with both the first and the final quarters of 1992 . |
| 6 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 8 | Another interesting mid-price reissue comes from Sony Classical and features the late Leonard Bernstein , not only performing Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic , but also talking about how the first movement evolved from the composer 's sketches . |
| 9 | All that remains of probably the first country house in England to be modelled on a Palladian villa . |
| 10 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 11 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |