Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It read , simply : ‘ REPORT TO ME FIRST THING — HAYMAN . ’ |
| 2 | Everything is falling into place for United 's winter push towards their first title in 26 years . |
| 3 | The patterns you can make on your machine depend upon your first learning what the machine will do automatically and then experimenting by adapting all that you have absorbed into your own designs . |
| 4 | Second , about one-third of untrained new entrants should have the opportunity of an additional year 's training on the same scale as they receive in their first year ; together these might lead to a formal qualification . |
| 5 | A quarter of Peruvian children die before their first birthday and those who survived , it seemed , learned early not to expect anything ; there were never any toys . |
| 6 | You must , of course , know how to tune and operate the detector correctly before you embark on your first search . |
| 7 | ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared . |
| 8 | Unless there is a cock-up against Costa Rica , who they meet in their first match , Andy Roxburgh 's team should reach the second phase . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 10 | Like with your first car , before you came to realise that every damn one of them ran down and rusted no matter what . |
| 11 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
| 12 | He holds pubs in thrall to his Welsh past — the stories which would be told afresh for a lifetime now emerge in their first edition — and his childhood , far from seeming a ball and chain in this airy court of privilege , glowed into a magic kingdom to match any of them . |
| 13 | Well Soupy , all that 's left is to wish you all the best , and roll on your first goal for Linfield . |
| 14 | The most common mistake that bands make on their first recording session is to be underrehearsed . |
| 15 | Maghery 's Dermot Forker is the only survivor from that game , and his vast experience should be vital as his colleagues bid for their first county championship . |
| 16 | Well , here we go into our first home game of the new season with a 100 per cent record so far in Division Three . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the outbreak of the War restricted their entry into service , and the new sun saloons which were delivered between August and October , got little use in their first season . |
| 18 | Think of your first couple of questions about that company . |
| 19 | ‘ Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out , go home and think of the dozens of abortions you 've had , go home and think of that and your damned caesarian sections too , and your children who hate your guts ! |
| 20 | They are experiments , for instance , that our undergraduates do in their first year here , tailored down very , very severely to act as demonstration experiments for these children . |
| 21 | QUEEN 'S are going on the offensive as they prepare for their first season of All Ireland league rugby . |
| 22 | LADIES ' soccer : Kate Esden 's goal four minutes from the end brought two points Colchester United Falcons way against Luton Town reserves in a match disrupted by a blizzard.The 1–0 win ensures them of at least a runners-up spot in their first season in Division Two of the Women 's FA Eastern League.The League 's plate competition takes centre stage this Sunday as the Falcons travel to Stalham Seahawks , Norfolk , and the Eagles entertain Hemel Town at Alderman Blaxill School , Shrub End ( ko 2pm ) . |
| 23 | ‘ And after you return from your first expedition as Scouts , ’ he promised , ‘ other secretions from your body will be blent in this same chalice of the Primarch — which was once His very drinking cup ! — during your induction into the third degree of Brotherhood ; though that in itself will only be the superficies of the third degree ceremony … ’ |
| 24 | okay Now come to our first session . |
| 25 | A sizeable proportion — the Americans , Canadians , Australians , New Zealanders — have as their first language the most supranational of all tongues , English . |
| 26 | Rave about his first solo recordings . |
| 27 | As such he is a natural verse-speaker , as we see from his first appearance ( I.ii.321ff. ) and from the soliloquy cursing Prospero during the storm ( II.ii.1–17 ) . |
| 28 | I had merely discovered what your pupils discover in their first term when they read Descartes . |
| 29 | But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 30 | We have explored a general , if somewhat schematic , framework which allows us to analyse rather than simply describe what undergraduates are taught during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |