Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] in the first " in BNC.

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1 The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War .
2 Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December .
3 Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place .
4 A length of twisted copper wire , gleaming dully in the first sunlight , was looped round his neck and ran taut across one fore-paw to the head of a stout peg driven into the ground .
5 Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place .
6 Kicking downhill in the first half , Haslemere had more of the play and after 15 minutes took the lead through Stuart Whiston who shot home after a Paddy Eames corner-kick was not cleared properly .
7 He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan .
8 Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ?
9 Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ?
10 That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place .
11 By stocking slowly in the first six months you could increase this slightly , to 25″ .
12 Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report .
13 They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them .
14 ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan .
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