Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] the first " in BNC.

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1 One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes .
2 Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could .
3 We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales .
4 The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members .
5 Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) .
6 With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes .
7 By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands .
8 OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title .
9 In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] .
10 When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light .
11 Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine .
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