Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 2 | Other Unionists , including Law himself , were less sure , even though they shared their colleagues " concern about the political and economic situation ; nevertheless it was agreed to go ahead , but that Lloyd George should make the first move . |
| 3 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 4 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 5 | This is not considered in much detail by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) ; however , they do suggest that the acoustic-phonetic information needed to define the word-initial cohort must include the first vowel of the word . |
| 6 | If the family should choose the first method , for example , ensuring that a life-story book is provided , then the child has the option of an identity outside his or her adoptive family . |
| 7 | The new discipline of industrial archaeology , which emerged in the 1950s , was largely inspired by Rolt 's writing , and it was entirely appropriate that he should become the first president of the Association for Industrial Archaeology when this was founded in 1973 . |
| 8 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 9 | Students who wish to enter a combined course must complete the first year satisfactorily , with passes in two units in each of the two subjects which they wish to combine . |
| 10 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 11 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 12 | In a standardised approach to the immediate resuscitation of a casualty a quick assessment of the airway , breathing , and circulation ( which includes opening the airway ) should allow the first aider to decide whether the problem is unconsciousness alone , disturbed or absent breathing , or cardiac arrest . |
| 13 | Smoke detectors may give the first alarm but detection is often by smell and by seeing smoke and flames . |
| 14 | Yes er , well I think we might , I 'll answer the second question but we 'll , we 'll , we 'll answer the first question but we 'll ask Michael , who 's right here to , to comment on entertainment . |
| 15 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll catch the first flight to Frankfurt after we 've picked up our bags from the Mayfair . |
| 17 | I 'll send the first prisoner down to you when they arrive . |
| 18 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 19 | I thought it would be up to seven weeks after my back operation before I was playing again , and I feared I might miss the first month of the season . ’ |
| 20 | So you do n't actually mention that if you do n't leave now you 'll miss the first act of the play , and he 'll be furious . |
| 21 | You might try the first part . |
| 22 | No , we 'll let the first side run . |
| 23 | If you 're playing against the computer you 'll play the first half kicking from left to right , changing ends at half time . |
| 24 | Cos you 'll get the first post then . |
| 25 | At the beginning of each month , you 'll find the first page of each month is a replica of the back of the calendar card . |
| 26 | One might ask the first question : Is it art or is it craft ? it is a tour de force combining both . |
| 27 | Then they 'll kill the first passenger . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll skip the first week . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , if only I could win the first prize ! ’ breathed Angela . |
| 30 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |