Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
2 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
3 | Hankin rates the Bishop Auckland youngster but feels he will benefit from a spell away from the first team . |
4 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
5 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
6 | Let us put now a sheet of opposite charge a distance d away from the first sheet ( fig. 2.14 ) . |