Example sentences of "the first [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 2 | until , the first day out from Liverpool , |
| 3 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 4 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 5 | The first man out of the starting gate today will swing and glide over a carpet of man-made snow 80 centimetres deep . |
| 6 | The first man out of the Chevrolet was wearing blue and green Bermuda shorts , a pink and scarlet Hawaiian shirt and a blue tennis visor with the words ‘ Go Dawgs ’ inscribed on its peak . |
| 7 | To mark 40 years of Elizabeth 's Britain we are giving away a truly royal prize to the first person out of the hat who identifies this tropical fruit . |
| 8 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the name of any one of the leading actors in the original 1939 film . |
| 9 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me her husband 's first name in the series , will take the prizes . |
| 10 | The prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat revealing who played Superman and who played Thelma and Louise . |
| 11 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me who had a hit record with Watching The Detectives will take the prizes . |
| 12 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me which detective was Basil Rathbone 's most famous screen character . |
| 13 | We have five £75 copies to give away and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me on which American TV show Wayne 's World had its beginnings . |
| 14 | Prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me either of the films for which Maggie won an Oscar . |
| 15 | We have ten volumes of those adventures to give away in our latest competition and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the surname of the puppet-master producer behind the so-called ‘ Supermarionation ’ series . |
| 16 | Arsenal 's is the first name out of the hat , but Collins is unaware of any movement on that front . |
| 17 | The first firm in on the act was the Skerne Iron Works which had a somewhat chequered career as an occasional supplier of bridgeworks to the Great North Railway which ran through Darlington . |
| 18 | I 'll send the first prisoner down to you when they arrive . |
| 19 | Patrick had the first footage out of Panama of an attack at night , taken under great risk . |
| 20 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 21 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 22 | And the first crew back at base at RAF Lyneham to share their experiences of another mercy mission . |
| 23 | But when I interview Johnny Suede writer-director Tom DiCillo a couple of weeks later , ‘ instinctive ’ is the first adjective out of his mouth to describe Pitt 's performance as a huge-quiffed , suede-shoe-loving Ricky Nelson wannabe . |
| 24 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 25 | On the first night out from Dakar , 12-year-old Faisal wandered the deck restlessly . |
| 26 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 27 | And take the first train out of Kent . |
| 28 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 29 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 30 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |