Example sentences of "take the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 2 | One particular wolf or hunting dog is not always the individual that takes the first grip on its victim . |
| 3 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 4 | Here she takes the first round , |
| 5 | the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions |
| 6 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 7 | Perhaps if , as I am told , they are a branch of Ladbrokes , they are hedging their bets , i.e. waiting to see if any other company takes the first step ! |
| 8 | Erm because the report is er quite a long report mainly the er part of the report erm I will pick out the most important comments and if I could take the first part of the report first erm this concerns a new staffing structure between er , newly emerged welfare rights and advice service . |
| 9 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 10 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 11 | When an azure-winged magpie is fooled into accepting a cuckoo 's eggs , the cuckoo chicks will take the first opportunity to push the magpie 's own eggs out of the nest . |
| 12 | Carole would take the first opportunity to get her on her own and have a word with her in private . |
| 13 | I did n't take the first bus , or the second . |
| 14 | What 's actually covered on the policy there I mean obviously if if you get let's take the first point as regards the if the vehicle is n't right from the day of purchase , then obviously the redress is with the dealer obviously erm I mean we 're all aware of that situation , and obviously the idea of the policy is not to take away the dealer 's liability the dealer 's liability remains , as you would know . |
| 15 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 16 | Why not take the first step to a happy ending — and complete the coupon right now ? |
| 17 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 18 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 19 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 20 | er position two is always for tur for taking the first turning off the |
| 21 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 22 | " Inability to predict what will happen after taking the first drink " is how we define alcoholism . |
| 23 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 24 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 25 | Taking the first question first , an answer can at least be given in abstract terms . |
| 26 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |
| 27 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 28 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 29 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 30 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |