Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 2 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 3 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 4 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 5 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 6 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 7 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 8 | I snatched it up halfway through the first tinkle . |
| 9 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 10 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 12 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 13 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 14 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 15 | Well , up twice in the first day er , sorry , Bernie , Lancashire region moving motion three seventy . |
| 16 | President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really . |
| 17 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 18 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 19 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 21 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 22 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 23 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 24 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 25 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 26 | This section provides a step-by-step guide for users setting up Offline for the first time . |
| 27 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 28 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 29 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 30 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |