Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brothers Peter and Dave Grundy from Willaston should rename their boat ‘ Mr Cool ’ after winning the first day and taking a major prize on the second day at Wexford Harbour . |
| 2 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 3 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 4 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 5 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 6 | No player will look forward to the game more than Boro goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who defied his former team in the first leg and aims to shatter their Wembley hopes . |
| 7 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 8 | I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war . |
| 9 | Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour . |
| 10 | The defendants were the owners of a public house which was run by a manager and his wife , who had a licence to live on the first floor and to take in paying guests . |
| 11 | Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes . |
| 12 | Double stranded cDNA is obtained by a number of methods including using a second oligonucleotide or degenerate mixture specific for a target mRNA , or else total double stranded cDNA is produced by ‘ tailing ’ the first strand and using the complementary homo(oligonucleotide) as the second primer . |
| 13 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 14 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 15 | With the first section , take your one pair in the first column and link it with any two brackets of three from the second column to give you your best eight selections . |
| 16 | This was a mind concentrator of the first order and forced us to examine every facet of our business and the way we did things . |
| 17 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 18 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 19 | The Select Committee recommended the first course and said that the life sentence should be interpreted and administered in the same way as the sentence to which a reprieved murderer is subject at present . |
| 20 | Take the first strip and fold it in half . |
| 21 | She and Hannah Dooley left the First Spiritualist and founded a Household Church . |
| 22 | She stepped carefully from her platform to the first foothold and put her hand in his . |
| 23 | He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep . |
| 24 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 25 | I sighed , opened the first folder and flipped through it . |
| 26 | He will forget the first question and reply to the salesperson 's later comment . |
| 27 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 28 | The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on , on foot . |
| 29 | He could hardly believe his bad luck though in the sixth frame as Wattana fluked the first red and proceeded to compile a total clearance of 136 , the highest break of the tournament so far . |
| 30 | The campanile dates from the first building and has a delightful bell loggia . |