Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs .
2 However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June .
3 Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come
4 Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) .
5 Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
6 • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it .
7 Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult .
8 No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second .
9 That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah .
10 A REVOLUTIONARY new Siberian surgery technique could help people in Teesside suffering from bone problems walk properly for the first time .
11 I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey .
12 Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe .
13 If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin .
14 Climb up into the first lost valley viewing the towering cliffs of Sgor Chionasaid and Sgor a' Bhatain on either side .
15 As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear .
16 Listen please to the first four bars of this music .
17 When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ?
18 The suggestions put forward in the first three leaflets of the three-year campaign range from turning down the thermostat and turning off unnecessary lights to installing double glazing .
19 Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life .
20 There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure .
21 He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’
22 Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain .
23 Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it .
24 Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first .
25 As soon as the starter says ‘ Go ’ , ride positively towards the first fence , picking up a good rhythm as soon as possible .
26 No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring .
27 Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’
28 ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys .
29 They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks .
30 DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side .
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