Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 2 | On Tuesday , they embark on the first of their midweek league fixtures , at home to Alresford with a 6 p.m. kick-off . |
| 3 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 4 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 5 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 6 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 7 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 9 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 10 | They have in the first year written 30,000 plans with a total of £900 million sums assured recording £100 million in premium income . |
| 11 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |
| 12 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 13 | At least that is one message 1500 of them gape at the first ever BAYSDAY , held earlier this month at various institutions in London 's museum heartland . |