Example sentences of "during [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many evacuees went home during that first winter , but when the blitz began , there was another exodus from London . |
| 2 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 3 | So doubtful was Maxine about her ability to contribute to the treatment in general , and about the strength of her visual imagination in particular , that we decided between us to do no more than practise relaxation and visualization techniques during that first visit . |
| 4 | Everything that happened to Millie during that first week in the House of Christ the Saviour she objected to . |
| 5 | During that first weekend Prince Charles showed Diana around Highgrove , the 353-acre Gloucestershire home he had bought in July the same month he had started to woo her . |
| 6 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 7 | During that first two weeks of running through the forest , it was all Mike could do to keep up , as Christophe pursued chimps that Mike hardly ever saw . |
| 8 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 9 | This I was to learn later , too late to recapture a heart irretrievably lost during that first week . |
| 10 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 11 | For during this first term the long regular letters to Harry Hooton appear to be a substitute for letters to Helen and a roundabout way of informing her of his progress . |
| 12 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 13 | Only key stages 1–3 were affected during this first year . |
| 14 | During this first imprisonment , which lasted from 1660 to 1672 , Bunyan published Grace Abounding , which was based on sermons given by him in prison . |
| 15 | She stressed what a violent man he was during this first marriage : ‘ But , after the break-up , Joan just wanted to forget him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We learnt a lot during this first phase , which involved giving detailed presentations to technical experts — and our competitors ’ , he added . |
| 17 | During this first step the variable FIRE is zero , so no step commands are issued before the first position detector pulse is received . |
| 18 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 19 | It was during this first day of the journey that Tallis realized they were not the only travellers moving north , towards the marshlands . |
| 20 | During this first transitional phase , de Gaulle 's preoccupations were mostly short-term . |
| 21 | If you reproduce this anecdote some ten or twenty times in different industries , you begin to explain the role of the Plan during this first period ’ ( Delors , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | . During this first hit it 's important to get the speed of the lawn , try and judge where you want the ball to end up to . |
| 23 | During this first stage tax rates were steeply progressive from three percent on a hundred and fifty per capita per annum to forty two percent . |
| 24 | During these first scuffles the blue civil rights banner was seized and ripped by the police . |
| 25 | During these first years of operation , progress towards some of the economic goals continued to be satisfactory . |
| 26 | During these first two weeks the sufferer makes an appraisal of his or her previous life and use of addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 27 | The experiences during those first 16 to 18 weeks affect your dog 's personality forever . |
| 28 | That was a subjective rating of the infants ' responsiveness to their mothers during those first months . |
| 29 | He emphasized the surname slightly , knowing he was being unfair because they had n't known it during those first days when Bacci had sat by her bedside . |
| 30 | On many occasions during those first few months , she was moody , tearful and uncommunicative . |