Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
2 | ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’ |
3 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
4 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
5 | And apparently the firm that she ordered the thing from in the first place had been er , re-set up . |
6 | Note the improvement ( though still to a high level ) in and the more modest improvement in between the first and the second repetitions . |
7 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
8 | It will also integrate the operations of Archive faster than planned , completing the effort by within the first half of 1993 . |
9 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
10 | The collection ranges in date from before the first Pharaoh ( c. 3500 BC ) to objects produced during the Roman domination of Egypt in the early centuries AD . |
11 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
12 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |