Example sentences of "time [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan are hoping to complete a deal for a top Aussie centre , thought to be Western Suburbs ' Andrew Farrar , in time for their first home match of the season against Hull on Sunday week . |
| 2 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 3 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 4 | Despite the atrocious weather conditions on our journey south , our driver , Paddy , brought us safely to the Shrine in good time for our first Mass in the Chapel of Reconciliation . |
| 5 | At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party . |
| 6 | I hoped that Archie would recover in time for his first night on duty . |
| 7 | As a result , I was often wasting my time during our first few flying sessions . |
| 8 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 9 | In my diary , some time after our first meeting , I wrote the date of Dana 's birthday . |
| 10 | That an ethos of this kind exists at Long Lartin has , since the time of its first Governor , Bill Perrie , been widely recognized , and it is one of only two top security prisons to avoid serious control problems . |
| 11 | Given any example of a classic scientific theory , whether at the time of its first proposal or at a later date , it is possible to find observational claims that were generally accepted at the time and were considered to be inconsistent with the theory . |
| 12 | At the time of its first dispersal , however , the languages had sufficient in common for Cyril and his followers to be understood by the Moravians , who were subjects of Prince Rastislav . |
| 13 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 14 | Table 5.5 summarises their views at the time of their first interview . |
| 15 | But these truths were by no means self-evident at the time of their first suggestion , when they were not so readily acceptable . |
| 16 | She recalled the time of their first coupling . |
| 17 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 18 | As already stated , the vast majority were , at the time of their first agency contact , using between two ‘ bags ’ and a gram of heroin per day , the typical daily quantity being 0.25–0.5 gram ( costing between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 19 | The next step was to explain the programme to health visitors , giving them the material Better Shoe public relations team wished them to place with the new mother at the time of their first home visit . |
| 20 | Of the 16 patients , three died at the time of their first hospital admission and five died subsequently . |
| 21 | When the lives of the women were examined in more detail , this finding was explained ; quite often , support at the time of their first contact with the woman was not translated into effective support in a crisis in the follow-up year . |
| 22 | At the time of our first visit the construction of the large oil terminal was at the planning stage . |
| 23 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 24 | By the time of his first visit in 1779 , there had been a county gaol in the town for over two centuries but although the building he visited was only thirty-three years old he was very critical of the facilities it provided . |
| 25 | At the time of his First Quartet , composed in 1938 , he was already an experienced and respected composer with five symphonies to his credit as well as much music for stage and film . |
| 26 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 27 | According to the Shaka'ik biography of Mehmed Sah , the latter was appointed to that medrese at the age of eighteen ( Mecdi gives seventeen ) ; and it is clear from that account that Fahreddin Acemi was his muid at the time of his first lesson . |
| 28 | For those with no knowledge of Russian , there is an intensive beginners ' course , known as Russian 1A1/1A2 , with a total of eight to nine contact hours weekly , which allows students to spend two-thirds of their time in their first year on Russian . |
| 29 | But these days he 's devoting his time to his first love … music , and has been in the region to launch a series of unusual concerts . |
| 30 | Denis Biggerstaff , the 1992 champion , needed to win the event with Woodside down the finishing order to retain the championship but it was Templepatrick driver Robert in his Pilbeam who set fastest time on his first run up the hill near Ballygalley . |