Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , I have two letters on the side I open the first one . |
| 2 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 3 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 4 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 5 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 6 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 7 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 8 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 9 | Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) . |
| 10 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 11 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 12 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 13 | She first met Molly Braithwaite when , as Director of Physical Education and Social Activities at the Central London Polytechnic she opened the first Medau Rhythmical Movement class with Molly as its teacher . |
| 14 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 15 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 16 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 17 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 18 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 19 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |
| 20 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 21 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 22 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 23 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 24 | By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory . |
| 25 | Lo and behold , you have the full twelve month series from Jan to Dec done and dusted , in the format you typed the first one . |
| 26 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 27 | The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second . |
| 28 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 29 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 30 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |