Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ventured upon deck the first morning , and was approached by not one but three potential beaux , each with his hair curled and exuding a powerful odour of bergamot . |
| 2 | He inspired the creation of Oxford 's earliest ancillary scientific post , becoming in effect the first professional laboratory technician . |
| 3 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 4 | If all goes according to plan the first stage will cost about $7m a day . |
| 5 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 6 | ‘ We sail on January the first . |
| 7 | A final decision on their future will be made on April the first . |
| 8 | This system was already elaborated in pre-war policy documents and substantially accepted by policy-makers The first years of war extended the pre-war system as constraints on expenditure were removed . |
| 9 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 10 | A Dunbartonshire gentleman attached to the Duke of Montrose became involved in what he described as ‘ a foolish ploy [ which ] happened at Glasgow the first day at the Circuit held ther with some of our friends & Barrowfields , wher we were all fyned ’ . |
| 11 | Currently in beta test , MicroWorks is scheduled for release the first quarter of 1993 — it is priced at $12,500 . |
| 12 | Access for Windows developers kits are scheduled for release the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | Scheduled for release the first quarter 1993 XRAID is priced at $33,000. +1 416 636 3000 |
| 14 | Developer kits are scheduled for delivery the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 15 | We 're hoping to say with on Thursday night , and then Friday & Saturday I will be at Hanbury Manor ( what a hardship ! ) , sharing with Heather the first night and Auntie the second . |
| 16 | Practically what that means , is when you get to March the first , you would archive January and insert April . |
| 17 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 18 | Charles 's success in landing a job provoked in Robyn the first twinge of jealousy , the first spasm of pique , to mar their relationship . |
| 19 | With the wily Administrator also arrested for treason the First Elder agrees to release both the TARDIS and Maitland 's ship — on condition no further human expeditions will journey to the Sense-Sphere … |
| 20 | He himself made history when , in 1984 , he donated over 1,200 pictures and objects to a foundation he established in Warsaw the first such institution since the war . |
| 21 | After the tax increases in the budget of this year o on April which are in to be introduced in April the first . |
| 22 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 23 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 24 | None the less , the 1960s saw in fact the first significant signs of new and creative thinking ; the context was the curriculum development movement , and the catalytic factor was programmed learning . |
| 25 | ‘ Never been able to drink instant since I went to America the first time . |
| 26 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 27 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 28 | William Hill , the other William , immediately cut their price on Wills being crowned by January the first in the year two thousand from twenty five to one to ten to one . |
| 29 | But er , pre , I thought you were talking about George the first something like that then you 've got er hand sawn timber , you know you can see the marks on the board |
| 30 | She put into words the first question of many that instantly sprang into her head . |