Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 2 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 3 | It is plausible to see the first point as spelling out the root problem for a philosophical account of knowledge , and the second as linked to Peirce 's anti-naturalism . |
| 4 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 5 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 6 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |
| 7 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 8 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 9 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 10 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 11 | Achillea " Moonshine " has acid-yellow flowers which air-dry beautifully — cut the first crop when mature to encourage a second flowering . |
| 12 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 13 | Rovers dominated the first half as Atkins hit a 25-yard drive narrowly wide , Cook blocked another from Atkins and Sellars curled a shot wide of Stowell onto the far post . |
| 14 | All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed . |
| 15 | CHATAM can become the first horse since the great Arkle 27 years ago to land the Hennessy for a second successive year . |
| 16 | Because of exclamation mark , and despite the lower case " w " , I read the first clause as complete , thus giving it fuller deictic impact . |
| 17 | ‘ You obviously have n't got the first idea when it comes to a relationship … |
| 18 | While celebrating the first occasion since the Spanish occupation of 1571 on which foreign troops had not been based in the Philippines , the country 's President , Fidel Ramos , expressed the hope that his country could develop " even stronger ties with the USA " following the withdrawal . |
| 19 | I would tend to favour the first method as you are less likely to let the compost get too wet . |
| 20 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 21 | and you know the first time since we 've been married I 've been able to actually cook a roast dinner and washed up by two o'clock on |
| 22 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 23 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 24 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 25 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 26 | The law upheld the first system as long as the aristocracy was supreme . |
| 27 | What 's actually covered on the policy there I mean obviously if if you get let's take the first point as regards the if the vehicle is n't right from the day of purchase , then obviously the redress is with the dealer obviously erm I mean we 're all aware of that situation , and obviously the idea of the policy is not to take away the dealer 's liability the dealer 's liability remains , as you would know . |
| 28 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 29 | A young buck private saw the first body as they approached the village . |
| 30 | All three parties to the Bosnia talks attended the first meeting since the current round began two weeks ago and the Bosnian president , Alija Izetbegovic , said he would sign key documents in a peace package . |