Example sentences of "the first [noun] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | With £400 to the first man home and £300 to the first lady and considerable training grants throughout , Lisburn looks sure to turn up trumps once again . |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 4 | I use two fingers after a while , then I 'm hard again ; I pull the first condom off and put on another one , then I spit onto my rubber-sheathed prick and , guiding it with my fingers , ease it slowly into her rectum . |
| 5 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 6 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
| 7 | The bridge was constructed in the first century BC and is attributed to Trajan . |
| 8 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 9 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 10 | Oh and his wife 's got the first name too and the name of the his wife too and then you begin to you begin to put a few equations together . |
| 11 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 12 | Okay but we have plenty more goals around the First Division yesterday and you 'll be able to see those in a couple of moments . |
| 13 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 14 | BP fired the first salvo yesterday and chairman Robert Horton has arranged to see Chancellor Norman Lamont to try to assess the prospects for change . |
| 15 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |
| 16 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 17 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 18 | A man like Mr Silvester Horne is regarded by his congregation with feelings of almost unmeasured adoration , due to the fact that he and they are really opening the book of life for the first time together and comparing impressions . |
| 19 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 20 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 21 | Walter Kent , the American composer of The White Cliffs of Dover , visited the town for the first time yesterday and presented an original of the song manuscript to the district council , which will display it in the £14m ‘ White Cliffs Experience ’ due to open in 1991 . |
| 22 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 23 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 25 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 26 | Brass is another important alloy of copper ( made with zinc ) , which first appears during the latter half of the first millennium BC and was widely used from the Roman period onwards . |
| 27 | Indeed there are West African sites , where copper was mined or refined , which date from the first millennium BC and perhaps even the second . |