Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 2 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 3 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 4 | Yet the great mystery of schizophrenia remains — it is still unclear precisely what role , if any , such factors have had in bringing about the first onset of the disorder . |
| 5 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 6 | When a popular war hero emerged , like Lt William Leefe Robinson , awarded the VC in 1916 for shooting down the first enemy airship over British soil , the jobbing printers , metal benders and celluloid crimpers worked overtime . |
| 7 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 8 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 9 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 10 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 11 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |