Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] that first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 2 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 3 | That 's where you graduated from the junior class as a boy , you 'd move up to that first class on this er this long corridor . |
| 4 | He walks round the streets he walked round on that first morning . |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 6 | The disadvantage of this is that the horse misses out on that first year of becoming accustomed to life and its excitements . |
| 7 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 8 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 9 | My mind travelled back to that first occasion . |