Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 2 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 3 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 4 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 5 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 6 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 7 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 8 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 9 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |