Example sentences of "at the first [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation .
2 Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna .
3 There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes .
4 Searching may thus cease at the first level or spread down and out , through the analysis of the primitives or entity geometry , into a fine check of a region of local geometry .
5 And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot .
6 It sounded as though the lift stopped at the first floor but immediately the sounds resumed and it was rising , she thought , to the second floor .
7 The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open .
8 Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on .
9 I holed a good putt for a birdie at the first hole and that set me up , ’ she said .
10 The implication is that Pope John sided with the minority at the first session and was ‘ upset ’ ( as the minority often asserted ) at the rejection of such excellent drafts .
11 The young officer , he concluded , must escape at the first opportunity or risk being classified as an unambitious ‘ no hoper ’ at an early career stage .
12 He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep .
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 She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it .
15 If you want a V shape section of knitting , enter a small number at the first x and a larger number at the second x .
16 Enter the sleeve shape with the cuff measurement required at the first x and the top width ( which is often the same as the back width ) , at the second x .
17 In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act .
18 Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test .
19 Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve .
20 This is generally observed at the first meeting and to a somewhat lesser extent at subsequent meetings .
21 I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne .
22 I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’
23 Karl paused at the first block and then started back , looking truly astonished .
24 The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations .
25 Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like .
26 The receiver was snatched at the first ring and Massingham 's disciplined impatience came across as strongly as his voice .
27 Steps one and two takes place at the first appointment and steps three and four at the second .
28 This could take an hour at the first interview and need several interviews after that .
29 There was a much smaller association between adversity measured at the first interview and symptoms at the second .
30 And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard .
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