Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 2 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 3 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 4 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 5 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 6 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 7 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 8 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 9 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 10 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 11 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 12 | Finally , the national forum recommended by the first Haycocks Report should perform the same function for courses for part-time teachers . |
| 13 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 14 | ‘ Down ! ’ he commanded as the first police car pulled up outside the Kurhotel entrance , its lights illuminating the car-park . |
| 15 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |
| 16 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 17 | Habituation and sensitization — often grouped together as non-associative learning — can be seen as the first steps towards full-fledged memory , and are universal properties of all organisms with nervous systems . |
| 18 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 19 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 20 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 21 | It was held that the plaintiffs could succeed against the first defendants in contract , but in third party proceedings the first defendant 's action against the second defendants ( the manufacturers of the pails ) failed as the pails were merchantable under s14(2) . |
| 22 | ‘ The residents who have moved into the first houses are the envy of everybody . |
| 23 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 24 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 25 | MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that . |
| 26 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 27 | In the reception class it can be seen in the first moments of a school day . |
| 28 | This was clearly illustrated by official reaction to the charge , made in the first months of the war , that the revelations of head lice , impetigo , scabies and general uncleanliness were proof that the school medical service had serious deficiencies : clearly , such conditions had been markedly under-recorded in medical inspections before the war . |
| 29 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 30 | The dichotomous partitions of categories enumerated by the first authors are : |