Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 2 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 3 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 4 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 5 | Then Shelley felt a shiver of anticipation , as she remembered the effect the first sight of the handsome Miguelito had on her . |
| 6 | Stephen Doey gave the Duns a first half lead , but that was cancelled out through Holmes after the break from virtually Armoy 's first chance of the match . |
| 7 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 8 | Graham Taylor selected Clough as it became clear that Nottingham Forest have finally signed a transfer form which makes the striker the first summer addition to Souness 's squad . |
| 9 | Quite clearly you ca n't roll the dice the first time you win . |
| 10 | To distinguish the species the first sign is the number of bars , D. microlepis having six or seven and D. quadrifasciatus ( which erroneously means four-barred ) having eight to ten . |