Example sentences of "the [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth started out the same way , then it stretched and lifted an octave . |
| 2 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 3 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 4 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 5 | Newly refurbished and the first to show off the new logo , the Bath Road store 's being hailed as a model for Co-Ops to come — proof , says the company , that it 's serious about shedding that fuddy duddy image once . |
| 6 | put the next turn around the limb and spiral the third , and so on . |