Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I first met Maggie . |
| 2 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 3 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 4 | But for a moment , between the door of the cage and where I first took stance , I could feel the greatness of the sky , it was on my wings . |
| 5 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 6 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Or their first live-in girlfriend taught them quickly . |
| 8 | The young reader , tackling his or her first Famous Five or Secret Seven book , encounters a story of breathtaking originality and excitement . |
| 9 | Dr Sharon Camp , who edited the Index , said : ‘ A child born in Mozambique today can expect to live only 48 years and has a one in seven chance of dying before his or her first birthday . |
| 10 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 11 | If these are present you will need a blood test from your doctor and should not start a special diet without checking with him or her first . |
| 12 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 13 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 14 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 15 | So what is the interest in Olive Edis now ? j Simply that the small Norfolk town where she first set up in studio portraiture ( with her sister ) is just discovering the significance of the local photographer , Mrs Galsworthy from South Street , aka Olive Edis . |
| 16 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 17 | After so many years , we meet by chance , here , where we first met ! ’ |
| 18 | Wo n't I have to countersign it or something first ? |
| 19 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 20 | It was his second try at the London event , where he first ran in 1981 , and he was pleased with his performance . |
| 21 | And every Sunday after service he invited " a good number of his friends to his house , where he first reads over the paper , and then comments upon the text " . |
| 22 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 23 | There are seven discussion lists on the network including RESPONSE where a child makes her or his first introductory contact , and KIDCAFE and KIDACT where the discussion and dialogue occur . |
| 24 | Most of us did n't begin our education or our first job with plans to do what we 're actually doing today . |
| 25 | In the pinewoods below the cliff the air was still and I remember being distinctly intimidated by the size of Raven Rock , where our first tick of the day was to be found . |
| 26 | But with these we guarded the water works , patrolled the hills and woods , and maintained a guard duty at Rugby Works , where our first H.Q. was situated , working our normal jobs by day and on duty by night . |
| 27 | ‘ The next step is finding a home for longer-term savings for holidays , home improvements or your first home , ’ says Amanda . |
| 28 | first year of business or your first year of assessment , you made five hundred pounds profit from your business , is that what you 've got in mind ? |
| 29 | Or your first dog , where much the same applied . |
| 30 | To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland ! |