Example sentences of "[noun prp] the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We 're hoping to say with on Thursday night , and then Friday & Saturday I will be at Hanbury Manor ( what a hardship ! ) , sharing with Heather the first night and Auntie the second .
2 In his time the year was usually indicated by the name of an official , for example at Athens the first archon and at Sparta the first ephor .
3 Having received that payment , the plaintiff handed over to Samuel Revill the first note and endorsed on the second — the note for £110.13s.4d. — ‘ received on account of Samuel Revill £47.1s.4d. ; this sum , with the amount of the first note , make £100 . ’
4 Riddick Bowe , who fights world champion Evander Holyfield here on Friday night , is almost certain to renege on the deal to give Lewis the first defence if he wins .
5 Ireland will go to New Zealand with Derek McAleese the first choice and Peter Russell the back-up .
6 Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out .
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