Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 2 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 3 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 4 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 5 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 7 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 8 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 9 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 10 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 11 | Yet the great mystery of schizophrenia remains — it is still unclear precisely what role , if any , such factors have had in bringing about the first onset of the disorder . |
| 12 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 13 | Eleven laboratories in eight countries are carrying out the first stage , synthesising new compounds for tests . |
| 14 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 15 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 16 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 17 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 18 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 19 | When a popular war hero emerged , like Lt William Leefe Robinson , awarded the VC in 1916 for shooting down the first enemy airship over British soil , the jobbing printers , metal benders and celluloid crimpers worked overtime . |