Example sentences of "about [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since some of the issues raised in these definitional discussions and addressed elsewhere in this volume have a bearing on the approach adopted in this paper , it is necessary to say something about them first . |
| 2 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 3 | There was no excitement about my first bra — I even had to pay , because my mum claimed I did n't need one ! |
| 4 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 6 | Flaps are described in detail for the many pilots who do not fully understand how to make the best use of them , and who may be nervous about their first flights in a flapped machine . |
| 7 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 8 | Women who did not tell anybody else about their first sexual experience 25% |
| 9 | And so , an indulgent round of reminiscences from some of the current crew about Their First Day At The NME — the expectations , the illusions , the public school waggery from the older boys … |
| 10 | Many of the Sutton pupils were very apprehensive about their first visit to Russells Hall . |
| 11 | about their first wife . |
| 12 | Denice tells us about her first date , when she was seventeen , and talks about her early life in Houston . |
| 13 | ‘ Then she told me all her hopes and fears and about her First Experience — I 'll say no more than that — but she remembered it vividly . |
| 14 | Rain asked whether Edouard had told Maurin about her first appointment at the museum . |
| 15 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 16 | Though I 'm worried about you first and foremost , of course . ’ |
| 17 | We did n't hear about you first time round . ’ |
| 18 | What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off |
| 19 | ‘ Find out what you can about him first . |
| 20 | Grainey , formerly assistant to Ashcroft at the Willows , will select the side for the home match against Leigh on Saturday , doubtless with reservations about his first match in charge being televised live . |
| 21 | Like now , when he was talking about his first involvement with Peru . |
| 22 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 23 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 24 | Rave about his first solo recordings . |
| 25 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |
| 26 | He could n't complain , anyway , about his first night 's lodgings in Granard . |
| 27 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 28 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 29 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 30 | fo for example , says , that he , about his first erm , experience , was as a field observer of baboons in er , Kenya or somewhere . |