Example sentences of "[adv prt] the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 2 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 3 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 4 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 7 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |