Example sentences of "[subord] [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 | She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After so many years , we meet by chance , here , where we first met ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was his second try at the London event , where he first ran in 1981 , and he was pleased with his performance . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ So my first erotic drawing was not on the back of an envelope ’ he wrote , ‘ but a week or so 's work on a decent piece of stone … |
| 17 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 18 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 19 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |
| 20 | By Roy Wright IT will be my second Father 's Day on Sunday and it has to be better than my first . |
| 21 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 22 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 23 | ( I have heard too many tales of immigrants ’ early days — their second state worse than their first . ) |
| 24 | Egyptian sculptors had long known far more than their first Greek emulators about the structure of the human body , but the general effect of their work is ( as it was surely meant to be ) much less alive . |
| 25 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 26 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 27 | She knew that her husband was well past it and that she herself was beyond the age of childbearing , so her first reaction was to laugh . |
| 28 | For more than its first hundred years , in the 17th and 18th centuries , its stories were all set in classical antiquity . |
| 29 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 30 | The scholarly justification for studying " others " rather than " ourselves " is that , although we first perceive the others as exotic , we end up by recognizing in their " peculiarities " a mirror of our own . |