Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 2 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 3 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 4 | If the decision is made to stop then the first step is to advise your customer 's buyer of the situation promptly . |
| 5 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 6 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 7 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 8 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 9 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 10 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 11 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 12 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 13 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 14 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 15 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 16 | Being a firm believer in the ‘ start 'em young ’ policy but desperate for any player I can get to fill out the first team , I have completely overhauled the youth squad . |
| 17 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 18 | During 1990-91 the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke sought to bring about the first all-party talks since 1975 on the future of the province [ see pp. 37624 ; 37720 ; 37784 ; 37869 ; 38111-12 ; 38156-57 ] . |
| 19 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |