Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 2 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 3 | At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort . |
| 4 | By the end of October the first frosts have generally cleared away those devils , the colours are on the hill and the bellowing back in the glens . |
| 5 | At the end of August the first arbitration case was decided upon . |
| 6 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 7 | We 're hoping to say with on Thursday night , and then Friday & Saturday I will be at Hanbury Manor ( what a hardship ! ) , sharing with Heather the first night and Auntie the second . |
| 8 | For Rolle the first stage , " insuperable " involves a love of God which nothing can shake : He uses the same degrees translated as " vnouercomyn " " indepartyd " and " singuler " ( 11.123 – 4.26,32,5 ) in Emendatio Vitae and it illuminates his thinking in The Form . |
| 9 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 10 | because we have , because it 's for the children , so I said we 'll do it , but that gives us an awful crush to get it in Friday the first week |
| 11 | Inevitably , it had been parodied in the Eye as Men of the Past , awakening in Branson the first stirrings of what became a lasting sensitivity to adverse publicity . |
| 12 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |
| 14 | She came to the post office the next evening , and the next , buying tea and a comb of honey from Lizzie the first evening , posting a letter at Annie 's counter on the Friday , waiting till the mail was sorted , each time managing to leave the post office alone with Moran . |
| 15 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 16 | In July 1992 , the Government finally produced its White Paper ‘ New Opportunities for the Railways ’ and in October the first consultation document ‘ The Franchising of Passenger Rail Services ’ appeared . |
| 17 | But from October the first things should change . |
| 18 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 19 | In August the first prosecution was initiated . |
| 20 | In BM the first step in influencing the behaviour of other people is to make a precise statement of the adverse behaviour . |
| 21 | In Britain the first date appeared on a Scottish gold coin of 1539 . |
| 22 | In Japan the first railway line between Yokohama and Tokyo ( 18 miles ) was opened in 1872 , and within thirty Years there were 3,000 miles of track . |
| 23 | In Europe the first attempt to set up a GaAs digital chip production base in under way , inspired by the French company Thompson CSF . |
| 24 | In April the first offshoot factory opened in Machynlleth . |
| 25 | In Macbeth the first hypocrite we hear of , the Thane of Cawdor , has already been exposed . |
| 26 | Charles 's success in landing a job provoked in Robyn the first twinge of jealousy , the first spasm of pique , to mar their relationship . |
| 27 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 28 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 29 | ‘ Never been able to drink instant since I went to America the first time . |
| 30 | . In nineteen forty one on June the first clothes rationing began , and for that year twenty coupons were issued . |