Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think about what the first tackle is going to be like , unless of course it comes from Stuart Pearce ! |
| 2 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 3 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 4 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 5 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 6 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 7 | copy to you the first time |
| 8 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 9 | I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness . |
| 10 | Is n't talking to yourself the first sign ? |
| 11 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 12 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |