Example sentences of "[noun sg] and take the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 2 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 3 | It 's mainly a question of confidence and taking the first few steps . |
| 4 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |
| 5 | Should she sell him the house and take the first flight back to England ? she wondered . |
| 6 | He did n't see them hurry down the street and take the first turning that came : Jess talking and talking now . |