Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 2 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 3 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 4 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 5 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 6 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 7 | Bernstein , Kearsley & Zapas ( BKZ ) , however , consider only the first term of such an expansion and write ( Compare the form of this with the Boltzmann expression ( 3.5 ) . ) |
| 8 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 9 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 10 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 11 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |
| 12 | Hence we present here the first rationalization of active-centre disallowed Ramachandran angles that are likely to play a direct role in protein function . |
| 13 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 14 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 15 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 16 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 17 | Open the file , throw away the first line ( LIST " nnn " ) , read the line to be edited and close the file . |
| 18 | Yeah , the first thing I 've ever the first time I 've shaved my legs , I forgot the water . |
| 19 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 20 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 21 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 22 | When you shoot the Repeater Hand Gun work out the first shot normally . |
| 23 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 24 | When you shoot the repeater hand gun work out the first shot normally with a strength of 4 . |
| 25 | I can assure Graham he will be the loneliest man in football , reviled by people who have n't the first clue about the game , but who will go right along with the bloodsuckers willing him to fail . |
| 26 | Many of the young people today have n't the first idea of what 's going on . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't the first idea , ’ he said in deliberate clipped tones . |
| 28 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |