Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 2 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 3 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 4 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 5 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 6 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 7 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 8 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 9 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 10 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 11 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
| 12 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 13 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 14 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 15 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 16 | On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole . |
| 17 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 18 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 19 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 20 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |