Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.

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1 you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it
2 Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal .
3 To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) .
4 GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out .
5 If you have chosen to bear the first £50 of claims , you will find that renewal is offered on the basis of a £100 excess for all claims , ( except Subsidence for which the excess is unaltered ) .
6 In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system .
7 The implementation of Council Tax has gone reasonably successfully to date and we have managed to process the first stage of recovery , that is Reminders , at the end of May 1993 .
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