Example sentences of "to [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , incidentally , is officially referred to as the first launch of the programme although it was the second . |
| 2 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 3 | To overcome this problem , you should ALWAYS include a line similar to as the FIRST line of any error handling routine . |
| 4 | As the speed is increased , the damping becomes less and you will be able to decide on a reasonable limit to keep to for the first half hour . |
| 5 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 6 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 7 | I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century . |
| 8 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
| 9 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 10 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 13 | Before we talk about the er er getting to the purpose of our meeting , erm , how long were you , how did you come to in the first place ? |
| 14 | erm is not talking to in the first place |
| 15 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 16 | And we really have to in the first instance , get public opinion to realise the way in which our lives are so pervasively subject to criminal prosecution , that 's the first step . |
| 17 | I am not talking here about your work surfaces , or work triangles or the general space/work efficiency of your kitchen , but rather if you could use your kitchen as more of a family room-the sort of room which friends as well as family tend to migrate to at the first available opportunity . |
| 18 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
| 19 | The existence in the area of a cave complex which functioned as a rebel base is referred to by the First Century AD Jewish historian , Flavius Josephus . |