Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 2 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 3 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 4 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 5 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 6 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |
| 7 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 8 | Right again on M completing the four sides of a small square and right into the first leg of the alley again . |
| 9 | Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units . |
| 10 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 11 | And so to the first of our summer sporting specials . |
| 12 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 13 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 14 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 15 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 16 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | As he said ( and not for the first time ) , you ca n't beat a bit of local knowledge . |
| 18 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 19 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 20 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 21 | Her voice dropped , turning low and vicious , and not for the first time , Michael Lee realized how cold and calculating , how vicious and cunning she was . |
| 22 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 23 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike . |
| 25 | He strolled down the road , thinking , and not for the first time , what a remarkably quiet and empty road Church Row was . |
| 26 | I wo n't accept the job because of Tom Russell , she thought feverishly , and not for the first time . |
| 27 | This time , and not for the first time , it was to be Jenna . |
| 28 | No need to ask who 's been on the piss all weekend , and not for the first time . |
| 29 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 30 | Again his gaze was intent , and not for the first time Robbie cursed the need for evasion , the maintenance of her fiction concerning Hugh . |