Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 3 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 4 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 5 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 6 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
| 7 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 8 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 9 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |
| 10 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 11 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 12 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 13 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 15 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 24 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 25 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 26 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 27 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 28 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |