Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reports , for example , exactly what the committee has done since the first report was published . |
| 2 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 3 | Once it has sprouted and the first few leaves have developed to about an inch , it should be removed and transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 4 | Durham County Council has announced that the first stage of the contract , valued at just under £2m , has been awarded to Sheffield firm Henry Boot , due to start work early in March . |
| 5 | The manuscript tradition seems to imply that the first sixty-five titles had no prologue , or at least there is none that survives . |
| 6 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 7 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 8 | It does help if the first task is achievable , for example to telephone the Housing Department , rather than to get rehoused . |