Example sentences of "[adv] take the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 2 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 3 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 4 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 5 | I double take the first glimpse |
| 6 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 7 | Imminence : of course he saw it before the impulse had even taken the first step on its journey from her mind to her body . |
| 8 | SURGEONS at Harefield Hospital near London have secretly taken the first step toward implanting Britain 's first artificial heart . |
| 9 | A group of Hartlepool women have successfully taken the first step towards a career in creche work . |
| 10 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 11 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 12 | turn right at the lights and er , then take the first left and there 's a pub called The Bull |
| 13 | Turn left then take the first right over the stream . |
| 14 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 15 | Again take the first route from this node , noting the letter at this next node as the second letter in the candidate string . |
| 16 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |