Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 5 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old Dubliner is a proud man through becoming the first player from South of the Border to become Irish professional snooker . |
| 7 | AN Aberdeen lecturer is being forced to choose between becoming the first Scots academic to be made redundant and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 8 | She 'd been so angry , after seeing the first picture of him with Dara , that she 'd wanted to get rid of anything that had reminded her of their time together . |
| 9 | After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre . |
| 10 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 11 | On touching down , after completing the first trans-Atlantic flight , the field turned out to be a bog , and the Vimy went in nose first . |
| 12 | In the fourth frame of their third-round match , Wattana was on course for a maximum but missed the 12th black with the rest after potting the first 12 reds and 11 blacks . |
| 13 | Ballesteros dropped out after bogeying the first sudden-death hole and Mize and Norman continued . |
| 14 | TOP-of-the-world mountaineer Rebecca Stephens was last night recovering in a snow-swept tent , exhausted but safe , after becoming the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 15 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 16 | After becoming the first Miss World , Alice appeared in two British silent films . |
| 17 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 18 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 19 | After absorbing the first batch of strange-sounding names this is a book which is difficult to put down . |
| 20 | For example , after picking the first letter of a word they were seeking , users had to scroll through all the words in the database beginning with that letter to find what they were after . |
| 21 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Leicester City fans have claimed Middlesbrough star Jamie Pollock encouraged a pitch invasion after scoring the first goal of his career at Filbert Street . |
| 23 | After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’ |
| 24 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 25 | Their rhythm was temporarily upset when Boone and Prenn changed sides after losing the first three games and Boone served from 8–8 in the fourth game to 5–0 in the fifth . |
| 26 | Second seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain claimed a place in the semi-finals when Natalia Zvereva of Belarus retired through illness after losing the first three games in eight minutes . |
| 27 | After giving the first five breaths into the child 's mouth , or if the child is small , mouth and nose , go on to C for circulation . |
| 28 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 29 | " Inability to predict what will happen after taking the first drink " is how we define alcoholism . |
| 30 | Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise . |