Example sentences of "in [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 2 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 3 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 5 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 6 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 7 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 8 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 9 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 10 | Brian Cox , who runs the operation , says : ‘ Anyone coming in for the first time is going to start by taking on what 's already there . |
| 11 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 12 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 13 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 14 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 15 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 16 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |
| 17 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 18 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 19 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 20 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 21 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |
| 22 | The period of time when acceptance becomes possible seems to link in with the first anniversary of events . |
| 23 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 24 | Banks — in Belfast last week to give a reading from ‘ Complicity ’ ( Little Brown , £15.99 ) — has once again struck gold with a psychological thriller that draws the reader in from the first grisly murder on page one . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 26 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 29 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 30 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |