Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now clearly we can teach a child a rule if the child is willing to learn that if we put the two plus one in brackets then that means add them together first and then multiply . |
| 2 | I was auditioning for Cats and that 's where I really first met Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 3 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 4 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 5 | When I was forty I suffered from my very first migraine , I was in bed for five days with it . |
| 6 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 7 | Interestingly enough , after I 'd announced that I was going to do this , my very first clients were all the star names who had asked about the sound I got when I was playing ! |
| 8 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 9 | Whilst flying back from visiting relatives in Denmark on my very first trip abroad , the second worst nightmare happened . |
| 10 | I AM writing this foreword to the 1993 Year Book on my very first evening in the diocese after the announcement of my appointment yesterday . |
| 11 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 12 | I made my very first TV appearance at 12 in a six-part series on Alexander Graham Bell with Alec McCowen , Francesca Annis and Judy Geeson . |
| 13 | My very first was with someone I was at school with , but he subsequently got married and vehemently denied he was gay . |
| 14 | When I had finished at 10pm , I joined Steven Wells and Dele Fadele at my very first lig . |
| 15 | Fate decreed therefore that my very first exposure to this unlikely world was as interpreter for the British representative ( a pleasant dairy farmer used to having a hundred cows he knew by name ) at the milk pasteurization subcommittee of the Central Agricultural Control . |
| 16 | ‘ And I — It is my very first visit … ’ |
| 17 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |
| 18 | I never thought I 'd be saying this but I 'm now the proud owner of my very first home . |
| 19 | My very first act — since one has to begin somewhere — was to decide upon the form in which I would report to you . |
| 20 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 21 | I 'm pleased to be able to answer my very first oral question . |
| 22 | Returning to Queen 's , he asked for , and got , a few gigs in the students ' union — ‘ my very first one was as support act to Blackthorn ’ — and soon he was working once or twice a week round the local pubs and folk clubs . |
| 23 | My very first . |
| 24 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |
| 25 | He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King . |
| 26 | In fact his very first answer put the concept in an entirely new light for me . |
| 27 | The winger was his very first buy as manager . |
| 28 | This is his very first school visit as secretary of state , but St Edmunds primary are n't claiming any honours . |
| 29 | You you 've throwed them away first before you buy any more |
| 30 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |