Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 32 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 33 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 34 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 35 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 36 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 37 | I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute . |
| 38 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 39 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 40 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 41 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 42 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 43 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 44 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 45 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 46 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 47 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 48 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 49 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 50 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 51 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 52 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 53 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 54 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 55 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 56 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 57 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 58 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 59 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 60 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |