Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods . |
| 2 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 3 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 4 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 5 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 6 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 7 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 8 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 9 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 10 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 11 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 12 | The first year of a king ran from the day of his accession in one calendar year to the eve of the anniversary of that accession in the following , his second from the first anniversary of his accession to the eve of his second , and so on . |
| 13 | Dick Hansen on a cold day in February 1992 , flying his P-40 for the first time . |
| 14 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 15 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 16 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 17 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 18 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
| 19 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |