Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down . |
| 2 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 3 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 5 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 6 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 7 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 8 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 9 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 10 | However , what is slightly more problematic than the end of the prosecution is why it was brought in the first place . |
| 11 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 12 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 13 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 14 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 15 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 16 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 17 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 18 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 19 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 20 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 21 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 22 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 23 | And then Adam had read aloud the first definition : |