Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 2 | To accommodate a passenger , a second seat was installed in an open cockpit ( later glazed ) forward of the pilot ( as was done on NASM 's XP–59A ) and the VIPs or observers were strapped in for their first ride . |
| 3 | ‘ Railway Days in Strabane ’ by local enthusiasts Willie Carlin , George Hare and Jim Tinniney , has already sold out of its first print run of 2,000 copies issued last November . |
| 4 | Jamie Sylvester , the Glamorgan Seconds and Maesteg Celtic batsman is also called up for his first game of the season . |
| 5 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 6 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 7 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 8 | He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’ |
| 9 | Olympic champions Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell will have their work cut out in their first individual races of the summer . |
| 10 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 11 | True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there . |
| 12 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 13 | Once down on the road they headed for Bagoush , which ironically was the airfield from which they had taken off for their first disastrous operation the previous year . |
| 14 | Irvine , California-based technology holding company Helionetics Inc has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Sentinel Systems Inc , which is designing the Sentry-E fault-tolerant computer in Horsham , Pennsylvania and has a ‘ major telecommunications company ’ lined up as its first customer . |
| 15 | OLDHAM prop Mark Sheals , signed from Leigh this summer , was sent off on his first trip back to Hilton Park . |
| 16 | Copsey is nor a dirty player and it would have been tragic had he been sent off in his first international ’ — IEUAN EVANS ( Wales captain ) on the Tony Copsey incident in Dublin against Ireland . |
| 17 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |