Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so that I could actually enjoy it more this time because it 's in , so much of a blur when you get married the first time that you 're caught up with it and you do n't really see what happens , I would like to get married all over again . |
| 2 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 3 | I 've done the first bit for you . |
| 4 | cos if you 've missed the first couple of weeks ' worth or so erm |
| 5 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 6 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
| 7 | I 've got the first batch came back this morning , so now I , I 've actually got the examples I can do it , it 's not , no problem . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got the first demand from the schoolteacher , boss . |
| 9 | You 've got the first lead . |
| 10 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 11 | You 've got the first stanza which is four lines , has got five lines has four lines ca n't see straight the first stanza has one sentence and it ends at the end of the stanza but then you have one , two , three , four , five more stanzas and you do n't get a full stop until the last stanza half way through . |
| 12 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |
| 13 | Slide through an alleyway that seems to have history inscribed on its cobbled stones and we 've reached the first stop . |
| 14 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 15 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 16 | ‘ So I 've passed the first hurdle , ’ she breathed . |
| 17 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 18 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 19 | Ebmeier et al ( 1988 ) have given the first account of the setting up and running of a Timbury type unit serving a local area in Inverurie . |
| 20 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |
| 21 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 22 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 23 | The idea that John was trying out his ideas in private first , getting them carefully developed before he actually faced his cast , is confirmed by another letter to Hanns in which he wrote , ‘ I have written the first record , and am starting rehearsals for S. T . |
| 24 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 25 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 26 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 27 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 28 | And now Cambridge United , who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck , have made the first move . |
| 29 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 30 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |