Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 5 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 6 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 9 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 10 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ Most people who use the train regularly know everyone who gets on at the first few stops . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the company is working on getting Kbus-based half-gigabyte RAM boards out in the first quarter , followed 1GB boards in the second though that later date is still kind of iffy . |
| 19 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 20 | The staircase sweeps up to a first floor balcony connecting four bedrooms , most with en suite bathrooms . |
| 21 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) The second point follows on from the first . |
| 23 | The second change follows on from the first . |
| 24 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 25 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 26 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 27 | This document sets out for the first time an integrated policy and management system , with the emphasis on continuous improvement . |
| 28 | The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . " |
| 29 | Sunsoft Inc says it will start delivering OEM versions of Solaris 2.1-on-Intel by mid-January , fulfilling its promise to get the desktop Unix for Intel Corp iAPX-86 boxes out during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 30 | The second shape comes out of the first like the extension of an igloo . |