Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 32 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |
| 33 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 34 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 35 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 36 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 37 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |
| 38 | So she went on watching and noticed for the first time that Mrs Files had lovely hands , long-fingered , fine-textured , graceful in their mundane task . |
| 39 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 40 | He followed her into the sitting room , and noticed for the first time his packed bag . |
| 41 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 42 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 43 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 44 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 45 | The home season will have a top-level start with the South Pacific contest ( involving Auckland , Wellington , Canterbury , Fiji , New South Wales and Queensland ) and the CANZ contest ( Otago , Canada , North Harbour , North Auckland , Waikato ) in March and April , and finish with the first semi-finals and final of the National Championship . |
| 46 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 47 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 48 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 49 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 50 | I just went as I was and got on the first train I could find . |
| 51 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 52 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 53 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 54 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 55 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 56 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 57 | Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas . |
| 58 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 59 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 60 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |