Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 32 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 33 | Norcross found that the acquisition of a button-pressing task proceeded more rapidly with the first pair of stimuli than with the second . |
| 34 | Some were able to return home yesterday for the first time since Thursday . |
| 35 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 36 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 37 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 38 | The action is slow to build up , but once midway through the first act the melodrama is unleashed layer upon layer , with liberal use of corpses and skeletons — the worms of decomposition having done an admirably speedy job in some cases . |
| 39 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
| 40 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
| 41 | Sure enough , the shrieking is louder and the wheel is hopping more violently at the first corner . |
| 42 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 43 | Bear slightly right across the first and second fields , go over a stile and bear slightly right across the third field , over another stile and across the right hand corner of the last field , going over a stile midway along the right hand boundary . |
| 44 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 45 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 46 | ‘ It was absolutely astonishing , ’ said Ludens , also not for the first time . |
| 47 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 48 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 49 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 50 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 51 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 52 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 53 | Go straight across at the first crossroads . |
| 54 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 55 | Elsewhere , guidebooks now pinpoint severity with laser accuracy — grades : adjectival and numerical : even death-potential ; and those oh-so-helpful lists , usually hidden away at the back , slightly shamefacedly among the first ascent details . |
| 56 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 57 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 58 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 59 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 60 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |