Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 2 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 3 | ; Mij All twelve writers will come to a glitzy show biz type lunch at the Cafe Royal , hosted by David Frost , and that 's where we will know for the first time , who 's , who is the overall winner , the runner-up and the third place writer . |
| 4 | Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move . |
| 5 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 6 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 7 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 8 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 9 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
| 10 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 11 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 12 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 13 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 14 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 15 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 16 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 17 | case of a shop assistant and you do n't know their name , do n't , write do n't know on the first line of shop assistant under occupation , only include people who speak to you |
| 18 | This study will , therefore , concentrate on the first wave of evacuation during the ‘ phoney war ’ period because it was this stage that caused most controversy . |
| 19 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 20 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 21 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 22 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 23 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 24 | This social report , which will appear for the first time in respect of the year ended 31 March 1993 , will include personnel issues , relationships with producers , educational and development impact , shareholder relations , and environmental impact . |
| 25 | On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh . |
| 26 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 27 | Is you 've got ta be like that show in the West End where it 's gon na feel like the first time . |
| 28 | What does it do with the first spiral ( 5 ) as it makes this new spiral . |
| 29 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 30 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |