Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 2 | When therefore I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life , religious , domestic and civil , and as I 've already written concerning the first , and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third , I determined to turn my attention to the second , or the domestic species . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never got beyond the first two or three rounds . ’ |
| 4 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 5 | We have also shown for the first time such treatment also decreases basal gastric acid secretion significantly . |
| 6 | I have partly dealt with the first argument . |
| 7 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 8 | Wales have yet to qualify for the first round of the NatWest Trophy , but looking at the results from this year 's competition , perhaps they were well out of it . |
| 9 | I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first . |