Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , I take on mobility and activities , somebody else is doing incontinence , somebody else first aid , somebody else mental health . |
| 32 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 33 | He said : ‘ If we are to give full moral worth to such persons , runs the argument , then we have to give full moral worth to the whole history from its very first moment . |
| 34 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 35 | Only the really savage hunter , who sinks his fangs deep into the toad 's neck at its very first contact , will suffer a major trauma or death . |
| 36 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 37 | At this point Sartre confronts the possibility that the whole project of the Critique , stated so confidently on its very first page — ‘ it must be proved that a negation of a negation can be an affirmation ’ ( I , 15 ) — may break down . |
| 38 | In its very first vintage , Carden Park became the holder of the English Vineyard 's Association 's coveted Gold Seal in 1990 . |
| 39 | The management team 's concern for the highest standards of service and presentation were in full evidence on 18th December when ‘ Chapters ’ hosted its very first Christmas Lunch for employees of the publishing firm . |
| 40 | On a hot evening in July the Medau Society ran its very first Barn Dance at Bridge End Farm — a pukka barn with bales of hay , a six piece group , a delicious supper , a happy crowd of over 200 people and a very efficient band of voluntary workers led by Pat Shere and Toni Bergham helped the event go with a swing ( and a clap ) and lots of laughter . |
| 41 | This was her very first taste of only the best being good enough — and she liked it ! |
| 42 | With the money her father had given her , Ellie , with the necessary help of Madame Gautier , had chosen and bought for herself her very first evening gown , a simply stunning and practically backless dress fashioned out of moire in the new fashionable colour of rose-opaline . |
| 43 | After the war Lucienne Palmer ( Mrs Hill ) embarked on an acting career and thence to playwriting , translation and adaptation from the French , part-time work as a lay psychotherapist in an N.H.S. therapeutic community , and , latish in life , her very first love of all-painting : London exhibition 1988 . |
| 44 | This was her very first tropical rain shower , and she decided that , in spite of acutely disliking her companion , this was an experience definitely not to be missed . |
| 45 | I have noticed the same response with sensitive people on their very first flight when they are trying out the elevator . |
| 46 | He had been stripped naked in the oil store , where the incident had occurred during their very first month as apprentices , and his clothes triumphantly borne aloft to the plating shop to be washed in one of the hot water tanks . |
| 47 | Yet all her looks , even the boy , seemed still to be summarised in her present being ; even their very first meeting and the dreadful scene at the fence were somehow gathered in , redeemed and graced , as if reflected in the golden eyes of the ram . |
| 48 | Border 's batsmen lost their stride in their very first game against New Zealand when the Kiwi skipper , Martin Crowe , opened his bowling with Kipak Patel 's off-spin . |
| 49 | Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach . |
| 50 | Yet with their very first attack , the visitors struck a cruel blow . |
| 51 | Children appear to observe Conventionality from their very first words . |
| 52 | Sufferers frequently know the exact time of their last drink and may remember their very first introduction to alcohol as a very special experience , something that may clearly differentiate them from the non-addictive population . |
| 53 | She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year . |
| 54 | , of course , will er , go down the of history because it 's their very first executives meeting . |
| 55 | Please support Berkshire in this , their very first rally ! |
| 56 | If you read that er book er from the Commission you will find their very first goal is in relation to nursery education in deprived areas and the panel 's looking at that , looking at indicators of , of deprivation as well as erm the . |
| 57 | From their very first meeting she had known he was a man in control of himself and his life . |
| 58 | Now what does that mean when you fucking first asked ? |
| 59 | But could n't you just first the potential , I mean it there was n't there , so let's get in and really |
| 60 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |