Example sentences of "[vb infin] the first " in BNC.

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1 The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’
2 The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row .
3 The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second .
4 Er to answer the first answer the first of your two questions , erm , the greenbelt as defined in the greenbelt local plan is hard up , in many respects , against the edge of the built up area , excluding allocated sites , allocations above that within the Southern Ryedale area would in fact require redrawing green in a green belt boundaries .
5 Yes er , well I think we might , I 'll answer the second question but we 'll , we 'll , we 'll answer the first question but we 'll ask Michael , who 's right here to , to comment on entertainment .
6 Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing .
7 It is believed Stars & Stripes will sport the first of North Sails ' revolutionary seamless sails , made in a 3-D mould , before the end of this round .
8 Having a resistivity of some 10MΩ and a permittivity of 3 , it would remain the first choice of insulation for undersea cables until development of para gutta , composed of wax and deproteinised rubber .
9 Readability will remain the first principle of Cobol , no matter what paradigm fashion dictates it must embrace .
10 They will lease the first team pitch and clubhouse back from the buyers next season and expect to move to new premises in 1993 .
11 This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims .
12 Information sessions will cover the first year of the pilot and one college 's experience of offering the additional assessment .
13 So it is the woman who will experience the first withdrawal symptoms .
14 Pulling a few exaggerated grimaces just before you go through the door will help you make the first important smile .
15 Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner .
16 If they have upset you , perhaps they are hoping you will make the first move .
17 WELSHMAN Robbie Regan will make the first defence of his European flyweight crown against Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the National Ice Rink , Cardiff on January 19 .
18 Other Unionists , including Law himself , were less sure , even though they shared their colleagues " concern about the political and economic situation ; nevertheless it was agreed to go ahead , but that Lloyd George should make the first move .
19 Neither the foundationalist nor the solipsist can make the first move .
20 ‘ We 'll play a waiting game , and let Michael make the first move , ’ I said .
21 She would definitely not make the first move .
22 Let him make the first move .
23 If they decide that you should , then you will be given a date for the start of the Service , and the Scheme 's driver will make the first visit to you , bringing a new supply of fresh sheets at a convenient time .
24 Hodkinson will make the first inroads into his fortune by taking a holiday with his wife to Las Vegas to watch the Lennox Lewis-Tony Tucker WBC heavyweight championship fight on May 8 .
25 CARDIFF 'S Steve Robinson will make the first defence of his WBO World featherweight title at the city 's national ice rink on July 10 against British title holder Shaun Murphy , of St Albans .
26 Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move .
27 Will he make the first team or will be another warmer for the subs bench ?
28 It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) .
29 Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then .
30 ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland .
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