Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten points in five crucial second-half minutes changed the complexion , Rod McCall driving over for his first international try , Roebuck converting then adding a penalty . |
| 2 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 3 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 4 | THE Marquess of Blandford was today waking up to his first full day in London 's Pentonville Prison , facing all but nine hours of it ‘ banged up ’ . |
| 5 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 6 | Now he 's facing up to his first week without work in 36 years |
| 7 | They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first . |
| 8 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 9 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 10 | Few people would be sold a new car without a handbook , or even attempt to grow cabbages without reading up about it first , but the same people will on impulse buy a new puppy without the foggiest idea of what is involved |
| 11 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 12 | It is surprising just how the cost of everything involved with interviews and settling down in your first fob can add up . |