Example sentences of "[verb] from the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to jump from the first floor , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 3 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 4 | The gallery is approached from the first floor . |
| 5 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 6 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 7 | The 5.7t/ha ( 46cwt/acre ) yield from the first field was below expectations , due to pigeon and crow damage in some lodged areas . |
| 8 | Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study . |
| 9 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 10 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 11 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 12 | if the other party shall at any time be in default under this Agreement and shall fail to remedy such default within 30 ( thirty ) days from receipt of notice in writing from the first party specifying such default |
| 13 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 14 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 15 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 16 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 17 | Beginning at the turn of the century , agreements between Iran and France created a French monopoly on excavations at Susiana , an intercultural trading centre dating from the first millennium to the late fourth century . |
| 18 | Characters have been copied from the first field to the second , until a word mark ( here in the source field ) is encountered . |
| 19 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
| 20 | Indeed , if there is one conclusion that can be drawn from the first year 's experience of audit regulation , it is that so far there is insufficient evidence to judge the quality of the service registered auditors provide . |
| 21 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 22 | As you can see from the first diagram , the body of even the toughest fighter is covered with ‘ soft spots ’ ( or vulnerable areas ) which can easily be seen and reached . |
| 23 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 24 | Restriction fragments from the NdeI site to the SalI site , to each of three StuI sites , to the FspI site and to the HindIII site , encoding from the first methionine to amino acids 435 , 356 , 256 , 136 , 205 and 73 , respectively , were prepared . |
| 25 | Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 . |
| 26 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 27 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 28 | Conference papers can be notoriously esoteric and dull as a collection and I would not claim to be gripped from the first page to the last . |
| 29 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 30 | Swindon were facing financial ruin after being relegated from the first division last season … |