Example sentences of "the [noun pl] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Clark , the Giants first baseman who narrowly missed the 1989 batting championship with an average of .333 , drove in six runs with two homers - one a grand slam — as San Francisco routed the Cubs 11-3 in the first game of the best-of-seven National League championship series at Wrigley Field . |
| 2 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 3 | But he has told me that if I 'm not regularly in the Spurs first team then it will be very difficult for him to pick me . ’ |
| 4 | The researchers first order the jets according to the amount of energy in each . |
| 5 | I have a memory of walking up the street in this small farm town in up-state New York and buying The Monkees first record when I was five or six years old . |
| 6 | He 's not gon na change now , he 's always done it with the lofts first man . |
| 7 | Competition judges at the Daily Telegraph awarded the youngsters first prize … a day in London being real journalists |
| 8 | A major emphasis of the Feet First approach is consultation , with pedestrians , disabled people , cyclists , pensioners , public transport users , motorists and businesses invited to participate throughout , including at the vital evaluation stage . |
| 9 | I make the beds first thing in the morning , but on Thursday I do enough shopping for Friday , so that on Friday I do n't go out , I do all my housework . |
| 10 | The 300dpi world will probably start to move to 400dpi fairly shortly but the vendors first need to make the move to using outline fonts rather than bitmaps . |
| 11 | Sales of the 20 US models imported — from a total US range of 125 — are expected to reach just over 20,000 this year , rising to 30,000 in 1991 , and reaching 50,000 by 1994 , half the levels first forecast . |
| 12 | Keeping some of the Rangers first team squad away from a disco would be like keeping moths from a lightbulb . |
| 13 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 14 | A novel jaunt for Mario as he puts his name to the SNES first art package . |
| 15 | The passengers first whisper , then fall silent . |
| 16 | Raleigh International operates in conjunction with such bodies as the Namibian Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism , giving the volunteers first hand experience of preserving and conserving African wildlife . |
| 17 | In other words , everyone should be aiming to meet the requirements first time , every time and without errors . |
| 18 | In their first underground leaflet , the Women 's Higher Council stated the following : ’ To our great masses of women , to the steadfast mothers , sisters , to our women heroines behind the iron bars of the zionist jails and in the revolutionary camps — to women workers , peasants , students — You had a central , important and distinguished role in the great Intifada — had part in its continuity , escalation and in sparking its flame ; this role has expressed itself in the wide participation of women in all fields of daily confrontation and resistance since the Uprisings first day . |
| 19 | I looked away from the sea , behind the sliver of beach , where the hills first rose steeply , then flattened out . |
| 20 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |