Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
2 Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though .
3 Cologne , 2-0 down from the first leg in Belgrade , won through to the quarter-finals with two goals from Goetz , his equaliser coming seven minutes from time , and a last-minute winner from Ordenewitz .
4 Bates , 5–4 up in the first set tie-break broke a racket string in the middle of the next point and eventually lost the tie-break 7–5 .
5 LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 .
6 This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes .
7 Six up from the first leg …
8 The judgment in the case , Re Letters Rogatory out of the First Civil Court of City of Mexico , is badly flawed but was followed almost without exception for half a century .
9 On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole .
10 He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it .
11 The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes .
12 And last time they were involved in a shoot-out , against Notts County in the Zenith Data last year , they missed three out of the first four .
13 You do n't get better down at the First Spiritualist Church .
14 He is still trying to shrug off a throat and chest virus , but seems certain to start the game with Wednesday , 3-1 down from the first leg , struggling for striking cover .
15 Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half .
16 But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place .
17 This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself .
18 And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one .
19 He fell heavily when 4–1 down in the first set , needed several minutes of treatment before deciding to carry on , lost the first set , but then came back to win the next two — all the time nursing his knee with an ice-pack between games .
20 Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats .
21 After the morning foursomes had been shared , Yorkshire took a firm grip on the proceedings when they won five out of the first six afternoon singles but then the young players took a hand .
22 STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time .
23 Now what 's the chance , that we 'll get a blue out of the first bag , and a blue out of the second bag ?
24 James McConnell , one of the four out of the first seven who did not survive the war , wrote with foreboding :
25 Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively .
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