Example sentences of "[vb base] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Push the first length of pipe into the ground or fit a pipe shoe and bracket |
| 2 | Highlight the first block of text and get rid of the italics . |
| 3 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 4 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 5 | you mean the first half of the table ? |
| 6 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 7 | All these examples involve the first sub-maxim of Quantity , which appears to be the important one , in which the provision of full information is enjoined . |
| 8 | Replace the first piece of knitting on the machine . |
| 9 | Throughout the Germanic West , in the decades 680–700 , ‘ appear the first elements of a renaissance , a forerunner of the great Carolingian renewal ’ . |
| 10 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
| 11 | Tap the first letter of the command ( eg Tap T for Transfer ) . |
| 12 | I never forget the first morsel of professional advice I received : ‘ Play your own game , son , but keep the ball moving . ’ |
| 13 | From the outlet , fit the first bracket 1m along , against the string line ( allowing for the thickness of the gutter ) and fit the first length of guttering to the outlet and the supporting bracket . |
| 14 | The plan which the Governors had in mind — which was carried out with great success — was to demolish this house , build the first phase of the new Junior School where the house had stood , and finally to demolish the then Junior School and replace it with the second phase . |
| 15 | Implement the first stage of proposals for the further development of information technology in the Information Resource Centre.PS |
| 16 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 17 | On the following evening , her plan laid , Joan again found an excuse to retire early and put the first part of the scheme into action . |
| 18 | If you wish put the first letter of the word , too . |
| 19 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
| 20 | They receive the first prize of £4,000 . |
| 21 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 22 | Six years later when Henry Ford 's son , Edsel , cut the first sod of earth on site with a silver spade , the site looked barely more promising . |
| 23 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 24 | Count the first day of your most recent period ( this is the first day of bleeding even if there are only little spots ) as day one . |
| 25 | This week Interex , Hewlett-Packard Co 's user group , will be having its annual meeting in sultry New Orleans and HP is expected to take it into its confidence and announce the first implementation of the PA-RISC 7100 chip in a new single-processor non-Unix business system dubbed the HP 3000 Series 987 . |
| 26 | Wiccans therefore break the first commandment of a group with which they wish to work ( Exodus 20:3 ) . |
| 27 | Transfer to the BA Hons Irish Studies is possible for students who successfully complete the first year of the Diploma of Higher Education in Irish Studies ( see page 151 ) . |
| 28 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
| 29 | The orchestra finish the first half of the programme with Mendelssohn 's String Symphony No 11 in F. The Priory Singers , under their director Harry Grindle , perform some unaccompanied choral pieces before joining with the Ensemble for Schubert 's Mass in G major — perfect music for the perfect acoustic of the Elmwood Hall . |
| 30 | Select the first word of the first sentence . |