Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 2 | We have expanded the programme in terms of the number of centres where treatment is provided , and at the beginning of next year we shall carry out the first heart transplant operations in Scotland . |
| 3 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 4 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 5 | You 've got the first stanza which is four lines , has got five lines has four lines ca n't see straight the first stanza has one sentence and it ends at the end of the stanza but then you have one , two , three , four , five more stanzas and you do n't get a full stop until the last stanza half way through . |
| 6 | I can remember when the first bit of tarmac was put on a road round here and that down here at Upton bypass and all |
| 7 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |
| 8 | I 'm not hungry , I 'll miss out the first course anyway . ’ |
| 9 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 10 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 11 | You can cut out the first step generally , and risk your life waiting for the 710710 nu mber to become free , then get details of what areas are still not sold out etc . |
| 12 | You can cut out the first step generally , and risk your life waiting for the 710710 nu mber to become free , then get details of what areas are still not sold out etc . |
| 13 | Now any postmultiplying column say{ a , b , c , 1 } , must satisfy unc In performing our iterations , therefore , we may ignore completely the first row of A ; we use the last three rows to find the corresponding elements in a column , and then apply(3) to find the top element . |
| 14 | When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt . |