Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] 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 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 3 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 9 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When you shoot the Repeater Hand Gun work out the first shot normally . |
| 13 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 14 | When you shoot the repeater hand gun work out the first shot normally with a strength of 4 . |