Example sentences of "take [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he used the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London to deliver his ultimatum to the Cabinet , which takes its first look at next year 's public spending tomorrow . |
| 2 | It is the first sign from the new Chancellor that he is ready to reverse the Tories ' commitment to lower taxes unless the Government And he used the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London to deliver his ultimatum to the Cabinet , which takes its first look at next year 's public spending tomorrow . |
| 3 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |
| 4 | Woodhill takes its first inmates in five months . |
| 5 | I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will . |
| 6 | Joking Leslie takes his first step to fitness |
| 7 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
| 8 | Now , as if objecting already to the place where it would take its first breath , it kicked against her stomach wall quite forcibly . |
| 9 | The £4.3m department at Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital will take its first patients next week . |
| 10 | He would take her first thing in the morning to see it . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody would take their first album . |
| 12 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 13 | In his book Anglo-Saxon England ( Cambridge 1970 ) Peter Hunter Blair wrote ( p.370 ) : ‘ The novice should take his first steps … with the aid of the Anglo-Saxon Primer by H. Sweet ( 9th edition , revised 1953 ) … [ then with ] An Introduction to Old English by G.L. Brook ( Manchester 1955 ) … and for a dictionary A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J.R.C. Hall . ’ |
| 14 | People got bored watching little Johnny take his first steps ? |
| 15 | A five year old boy from Bosnia who 's paralysed from the waist down could soon take his first steps with the aid of calipers . |
| 16 | He can improve again and take his first Group prize . |
| 17 | He can improve again and take his first Group prize . |
| 18 | Before he could take his first step into the water he saw the fish . |
| 19 | When in your life did you take your first drink ? |
| 20 | I watched you progress slowly to being able to point out words letter by letter on an alphabet board so we could communicate ; I heard you gradually learn to speak again ; and I saw you take your first steps , shaky as they were . |
| 21 | I was just about to say something like " What 's the idea of all those tricks you play on me ? " when I took my first look at the dog and everything else fled from my mind . |
| 22 | ‘ Then I took my first holiday for seven years and went to Egypt . |
| 23 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 24 | I took my first job in the City in 1936 , working for Kittel and Company at 5 Fenchurch Street . |
| 25 | I was deeply imbued with the historic and cultural spells of this monumental structure when I took my first walk round the cloisters of the inner courtyard , whose first-floor gallery , open to the sky , is beautifully panelled and wainscoted . |
| 26 | As they do this , trusting in God 's help , inching forward like a baby taking its first steps , a sense of reality will return to their faith as well as their lives . |
| 27 | Woodhill took its first inmates last summer.It cost forty million pounds and was intended to be part of a new wave of prisons with just one inmate per cell and in which the prisoner could take more reponsibility for his own welfare . |
| 28 | CHILDLINE today took its first steps towards helping the voices of children in danger or trouble in Northern Ireland to be heard . |
| 29 | Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world last week and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators . |
| 30 | Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world yesterday and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators . |