Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 2 | I did n't think much of the first time really . |
| 3 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
| 4 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
| 5 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
| 6 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 7 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 8 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 9 | Exactly and if , if you can break even in the first |
| 10 | ‘ If a woman did not become pregnant after the first transfer attempt , any frozen embryos could be thawed and transferred in a subsequent menstrual cycle , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I must confess I did nt see much of the first 60 mins ( football training ! ) . |
| 12 | Demand is growing , so the sight of wild boar wallowing in the mud could become commonplace for the first time since the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | The extra stress that it will have caused to forest trees in Britain and the continent will provide one of the first tests of his new ideas . |
| 14 | The rule is expected to come into force in 1988 when post-1939 buildings will become eligible for the first time . |
| 15 | One January 20 , he promises the front door of the White House will swing open for the first time in nearly 30 years , as Bill , wife Hilary and 12-year-old daughter Chelsea pop down to McDonald 's and do a little shopping . |
| 16 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 17 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 18 | Did you say we can change this on the first screen custody ? |
| 19 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 20 | If you prefer to enter the finished garment measurements only , ( taken from a diagram in a magazine for instance ) you can put these in the first column and just enter zero each time in the ease column . |
| 21 | It is far better to never get unhealthy in the first place ! |
| 22 | Although Short ( 28 ) will play black in the first game , colours will alternate from then on . |
| 23 | Singing constantly from a prominent post or in flight , they show off their beautiful spring black , white , grey and buff spring plumage in the hope it will prove irresistible to the first passing female . |
| 24 | Well why do n't you get two for the first day , and then and then then they 're not |
| 25 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 26 | If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by |
| 27 | And I would say it 's on highways with your traffic on the access and on parking , and added that to the list , I did n't say that in the first instant . |
| 28 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 29 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |