Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 2 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 3 | Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory . |
| 4 | For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course . |
| 5 | His car was still outside ; it was the open-top Volkswagen Beetle he 'd bought himself on that first day straight from the showroom window . |
| 6 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
| 7 | " Get 'em over that first month and you 're half way there . " |
| 8 | Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment . |
| 9 | The leaders of Britain 's main christian churches were there to greet her in this first city church devoted to united worship . |
| 10 | She shook her head in exasperation , remembering his deception and total lack of sympathy , the way he had treated her on that first night , that following morning . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , yes , I 've wanted you from that first meeting in France . ’ |
| 12 | His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier . |
| 13 | Had wanted her since that first day . |
| 14 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 15 | I learned everything from this first spectacle : I saw how the white ( French ) , superior , plutocratic , civilized world founded its power on the repression of populations who had suddenly become ‘ invisible ’ , like proletarians , immigrant workers , minorities who are not the right ‘ colour ’ . |
| 16 | I 've loved you from that first day . " |
| 17 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |