Example sentences of "[v-ing] the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , to attach the pelmet to the board , either attach the firm side of the touch-and-close fastener to the top edge of the board with steel tacks , if using the first method above , or place a strong drawing pin through each pocket on the tape and into the top edge of the board , bending the returns round the ends of the board . |
| 2 | Joan Bailey enquired , drawing the first letter out of its envelope , looking casually down at it , not avid , barely curious . |
| 3 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 5 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 6 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 7 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 8 | An extensive seismic programme will begin in the second half of 1992 with a view to drilling the first exploration well in late 1993 . |
| 9 | We 're putting all our resources into getting the first leg over . |
| 10 | Spend time getting the first layer dead true . |
| 11 | Two officers are examining the first floor right now ; there is some ivy . ’ |
| 12 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 13 | revolving it , two hands doing the first job just changed |
| 14 | But hearing the first movement again straight after the lugubrious Piano Duet Concerto ( see review above ) it sounded marvellous . |
| 15 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 16 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |