Example sentences of "[pron] [det] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 2 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked her to marry me that first night . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I actually asked her to marry me that first night , and she said yes , ’ says Barry . |
| 5 | If you know who the contact was , then tell me that first . ’ |
| 6 | If you give me that first . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 8 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 9 | But if you do n't tell them that first of all you want a contract . |
| 10 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 11 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 12 | His Carnival ( my own first choice when Building a Library for BBC Radio 3 ) , too , is alive with gaiety and passion . |
| 13 | My own first tenth and a tenth of T'zin 's . |
| 14 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 15 | He immediately satisfied himself that first aid was being rendered . |
| 16 | Name the novel ( with author ) from which these FIRST LINES come — |
| 17 | Refer to the available photographs when reading the exercise description , and practise them on their own first before attempting a whole session . |
| 18 | Do not pull them on with the nuts , but make sure they fit on their own first , then smear copper anti-seize compound onto the wheel face and centre before fitting . |
| 19 | Those whose parents are literate in a language other than English may have observed writing in their own first language , for which there may be a different writing system . |
| 20 | The new Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) was formally inaugurated at a joint convention in February 1990 [ see pp. 37187-88 ; 37247-48 ] , and held its own first convention in May [ see pp. 37456-57 ] . |
| 21 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 22 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 23 | Nathan sat , wide-eyed and bewildered next to Ari , reminding her of her own first day aboard . |
| 24 | Liz came back accompanied by her parents , but wanting to speak to the therapist on her own first . |
| 25 | It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand . |
| 26 | Her incredulous tone amused Christina , who remembered her own first impression of the local Bajan dwellings . |
| 27 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 28 | She could not help thinking of her own first labour . |
| 29 | The result was a painting of " flying cyclamens " , one of the earliest to be sold at her own first exhibition a year later . |
| 30 | Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening . |