Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as we shall see , in other modes , because does not necessarily introduce the first event . |
| 2 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 3 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 4 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 6 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved . |
| 9 | I can hardly remember the first time I felt that we loved each other . |
| 10 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 11 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 12 | If the information is acceptable , LIFESPAN will automatically display the first page of information , as illustrated in figure 6.19 . |
| 13 | The exhibition will also present the first stage of a restoration programme which will cover the 150 photographs displayed . |
| 14 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |
| 15 | The auction will also see the first work by Antonio Lopez Garcia to be put up for sale in London or New York and his ‘ Ataud ’ of 1957 is estimated at £180–250,000 ( $315–440,000 ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , both Origen and Augustine could also presuppose the first view of inspiration . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The idea being is that they would now spend the first year at college , possibly we then would look at them better and |
| 19 | We wo n't there 's there 's a good chance we do n't even get the first blue . |
| 20 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 21 | " 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 . " |
| 22 | Carl Channell could never forget the first North briefing he saw , one of his contra slide shows in the White House . |
| 23 | She would never forget the first time , balanced high on the steep roof of the house , huddled from the wind against the chimney-stack , Fenna 's great shadow hovering over her , although Fenna had surely not been so hugely vast then as he was now , his shadow had not obliterated the stars , threatening their very existence . |
| 24 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |