Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 32 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 33 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 34 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 35 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 36 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 37 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 38 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 39 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 40 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 41 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 42 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |
| 43 | A pleasant 15-minute walk brings you to the first two faces , which contain dozens of routes at VS to E1 . |
| 44 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 45 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 46 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 47 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 48 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 49 | Two factors affect it in the first four years . |
| 50 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 51 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 52 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 53 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 54 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 55 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |