Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , as you rework the question into your first sentence you can begin to show that key terms in the question are problematic or vague , or you can suggest what kind of evidence you will draw on to discuss the question . |
| 2 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 3 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 4 | For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism . |
| 5 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 6 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 7 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 8 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 9 | The first decision you 'll need to make is whether to buy a basic microwave , a model with a grill , or a combination oven that integrates the speed of a microwave with the browning and crisping of conventional heat . |
| 10 | He said the first verb he 'd learned was ‘ to love ’ and the first noun ‘ a table ’ , bizarre beginnings to a vocabulary with no connection between the parts . |
| 11 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 12 | Still , I 'll say this for you : you 're the first Scotsman I 've met who 's prepared to put his hand in his pocket for a round of drinks . ’ |
| 13 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 14 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 15 | Under the first category they considered the intrusive gathering and dissemination of information by the publicity media , the handling of credit information , unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters at work and in education and medicine , prying by neighbours and landlords , and intrusive sales methods . |
| 16 | ‘ In the first category we have criminal cases , judicial review and cases which involve matrimonial status and the welfare of children or those under a disability . |
| 17 | In the first category we may mention Kettner 's The Development of American Citizenship 1608–1870 ( 1978 ) and more particularly Pocock 's influential The Machiavellian Moment ( 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Into the first category we can place the work of Ferrier and Fritz and Hitzig , who showed that previous ambiguous results in studies of experimental brain damage in animals were due to inadequately sized and placed lesions . |
| 19 | In the first category we work to prevent effects which might otherwise take place , not necessarily working directly with the child . |
| 20 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 21 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 22 | Naturally , you can upgrade the processor , but this is the first PC I 've seen that has a socket for Intel 's yet-to-be-released Pentium 586 processor . |
| 23 | Learning to pronounce the address ‘ Quatorze rue du Perre , Place Pigalle ’ to a taxi driver was the first hurdle they had to overcome : |
| 24 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 25 | Numerous questions have been asked in the House about the police national computer , but to my knowledge this is the first opportunity we have had in recent times to discuss wider issues . |
| 26 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 27 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 28 | ‘ This is the first opportunity I 've had to get away from Josh and the director . |
| 29 | I know nothing of political tactics , but I will say this : Having come to that conclusion myself , I felt the only honest and right thing as a leader of a democratic party was to tell them , at the first opportunity I had , what I thought , and submit it to their judgment . ’ |
| 30 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |