Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 2 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 3 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 4 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 5 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 6 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 7 | With large files , there will frequently be a cylinder index added as a first level index . |
| 8 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 9 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 10 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 11 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 12 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 13 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 14 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 15 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 16 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 17 | A not untypical pattern of distortion of sensation was reported from the first documented vigil of this sort : |
| 18 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 19 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 20 | In 1984 Denison set up his own practice , Denison Peters Limited , to work on the first big project on the Leeds riverside , a housing scheme of part converted corn chandlers and part newly built flats . |
| 21 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 22 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 23 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 24 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 25 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 26 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 27 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 28 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 29 | His Queensland team-mate , Michael Doohan , the winner in Japan , set the qualifying pace ahead of defending champion Wayne Rainey , on a Yahama , and Kevin Schwantz , the Suzuki team leader , who is still looking for a first major title breakthrough . |
| 30 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |