Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 2 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 3 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 4 | Yes I did i well I did hear of several things to stop having them but over the first actually . |
| 5 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 6 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |