Example sentences of "[vb base] the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just say the first thing that comes into your head . ’ |
| 2 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 3 | The Tsarevich Nicholas , the future Nicholas II , on a visit to the Far East , cut the first sod and laid the foundation stone of the rail-way station at Vladivostok on 19 May 1891 . |
| 4 | Cut the first slice and the juice will run out . |
| 5 | Achillea " Moonshine " has acid-yellow flowers which air-dry beautifully — cut the first crop when mature to encourage a second flowering . |
| 6 | All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed . |
| 7 | Because of exclamation mark , and despite the lower case " w " , I read the first clause as complete , thus giving it fuller deictic impact . |
| 8 | if the sentences are too long to manage , first record the sentences phrase by phrase , i.e. : record the dialogue sentence by sentence with a pause long enough for you to mimic , then having LH repeat the sentence , i.e. : record the first phrase or word of each sentence with a pause long enough for you to produce the whole sentence ( i.e. with cue/prompt ) . |
| 9 | Drop the first letter and you get an insect that wiggles its arse , which seems plain enough . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 11 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 12 | and you know the first time since we 've been married I 've been able to actually cook a roast dinner and washed up by two o'clock on |
| 13 | We assume that graduates will do and say things in a considered way and not proffer the first thing that occurs to them . |
| 14 | Perhaps use the first names and put out the meaning of the first names of the |
| 15 | Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path . |
| 16 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 17 | This year 's Republican Party primary elections mark the first time that the controversies of the past three years over the National Endowment for the Arts , the federal agency charged with arts support , have entered the realm of American presidential politics . |
| 18 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 19 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 20 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 21 | We tend to feel that we can always cut off alter the first phase if money runs out but in fact we can not because the whole thing is a single investment . |
| 22 | He did n't see them hurry down the street and take the first turning that came : Jess talking and talking now . |
| 23 | Take the first strip and fold it in half . |
| 24 | turn right at the lights and er , then take the first left and there 's a pub called The Bull |
| 25 | The only Excuse me , er no , we even had Abbot , A double B , er did n't always get in front but I think it should have done you know , you take the first letter and then you take the . |
| 26 | Oh yeah cos I was a couple of years later than that , so I managed to , sort of , avoid the first year or so |
| 27 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 28 | Light the candle , drink the first glass and wait five minutes . |
| 29 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
| 30 | And so generally buy the first thing that actually fits . |