Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
| 3 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 4 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 5 | However the continuation of active addictive disease is even more boring and oppressive and the initial enthusiasm usually matures gradually within the first year of recovery . |
| 6 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 7 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 8 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 9 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 10 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 11 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 12 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 13 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 14 | Think first about the repetitions Blake uses : ‘ charter 'd ’ occurs twice in the first stanza , and ‘ marks ’ three times . |
| 15 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 16 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 17 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 18 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 19 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 20 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Dr Peter Sanders , the commission 's chief executive , confirms publicly for the first time that the report ‘ reveals distorted representation of children from ethnic minorities living in Glasgow , in special educational needs categories ’ . |
| 21 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 22 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 23 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Most people who use the train regularly know everyone who gets on at the first few stops . |
| 25 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 26 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 27 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 28 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 29 | Their protests gained renewed impetus in the suffrage struggles immediately before the First War . |
| 30 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |