Example sentences of "for [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
2 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
3 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
4 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
5 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
6 | If , if you look at their work , for about the first hundred years after all of them , their work was widely , er , disparaged and rejected . |
7 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
8 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
9 | Rough Collie Rescue ( London and South East ) started an appeal , with £200 of their own money , named the ‘ Robbie Fund ’ to help Grace McNeil afford the court costs she should never have been liable for in the first place . |
10 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
11 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
12 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
13 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
14 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
15 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
16 | How much did we buy Kerslake for in the first place ? |
17 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |