Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 2 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 4 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 5 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 6 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 8 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 9 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 10 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 11 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 12 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 13 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 14 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 15 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 16 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 17 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 18 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 19 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 20 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 21 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 22 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 23 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 24 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 25 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 26 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 27 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 28 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 29 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 30 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |