Example sentences of "[v-ing] the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 2 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 3 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 4 | Allow them to be whoever they are , trusting the first images that come to mind . |
| 5 | Premiums can also be cut by paying the first £150 or £250 of a claim and some insurers offer no-claim discounts , which should suit the super fit . |
| 6 | While celebrating the first occasion since the Spanish occupation of 1571 on which foreign troops had not been based in the Philippines , the country 's President , Fidel Ramos , expressed the hope that his country could develop " even stronger ties with the USA " following the withdrawal . |
| 7 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 8 | He was blustering , saying the first thing that came into his head . |
| 9 | It was Wycliffe , giving the first indication that he had followed her argument , and she became flustered . |
| 10 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 11 | With his sharp claws he separated the two beings and swiftly carved nostrils , eyes , ears and genitals , thus creating the first man and woman . |
| 12 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |
| 13 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |
| 14 | Brothers Peter and Dave Grundy from Willaston should rename their boat ‘ Mr Cool ’ after winning the first day and taking a major prize on the second day at Wexford Harbour . |
| 15 | That was 12 years ago , and after winning the first race that I entered between Sudbury and Bures in a non-racing canoe , I had caught the bug . ’ |
| 16 | A year later , as Worrell was still at university , Alexander was appointed to take the team to India and Pakistan , winning the first series but losing the second . |
| 17 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 18 | HIT THE NORTH , a celebration of Scandinavian bands , takes place at London 's Marquee with Eggstone , Poverty Stinks and Sharing Patrol playing the first night and Bel Canto , SS Sol and Inferno 5 playing the second night . |
| 19 | Running , screaming the first time and left two dead before they could creep back out of range of John Russell 's Spencer . |
| 20 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |