Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court may allow a defendant to withdraw or amend a first admission at any time on such terms as may be just ( Ord 9 , r 2(4) ) . |
| 2 | The median age divides the women into two equal size groups ; one half of the women first married ( or had a first birth ) at a younger and one half at an older age . |
| 3 | Presented on Nov. 28 and given a first reading on Dec. 1 , the new law had replaced an initial draft of Nov. 5 which had been immediately rejected . |
| 4 | To : The Box Office , The Playhouse , The High , Harlow CM20 1LS , and enclosing a first class SAE . |
| 5 | Patel 's seventh-wicket pairing with Cairns had reached record proportions on Day 4 by the time , when 97 , he pulled Lewis towards the midwicket boundary and sensed a first Test century . |
| 6 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 7 | Otherwise such times can be worked out in advance and become a first call on everyone 's schedule . |
| 8 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 9 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 10 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |