Example sentences of "[prep] [art] very first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , ’ she had responded , for the very first time since her arrival at Loch Lomond feeling unaccountably awkward and strange . |
2 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
3 | Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me . |
4 | For the very first time in her life she needed someone . |
5 | Well , in this view — quite possibly for the very first time in the history of their occupations — publishers and booksellers are wrong . |
6 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |
7 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
8 | Wooden models , primitive in design as the very first toys of all , of two men hammering in turn on an anvil . |
9 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
10 | One of the very first actors to be labelled a hellraiser was Peter Finch . |
11 | He arrived in England in 1963 when aged 16 and almost immediately immersed himself in sport ; as such he was one of the very first sportsmen to energy from the second generation West Indian immigrants . |
12 | Brian was one of the very first members of the ACET team and will be greatly missed . |
13 | I always had a strong feeling that , once " Bomber " Harris was forced to accept a Target Finding/Marking faction within his Command , one of the very first people to he considered " is founder member would he Jimmy Marks . |
14 | One of the very first examples of Gothic architecture was the Abbey Church of S. Denis , built in the decade from 1135 by the Abbé Suger . |
15 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
16 | Table 4.1 provides summary details of the very first destinations of students at the end of their courses . |
17 | Nevertheless Bernier was cautiously appreciative of most aspects of India and was one of the very first apologists for Mughal culture against the growing arrogance of its European visitors . |
18 | Borland became a thorn in both their sides long ago , with the very first version of what is now an extremely popular spreadsheet . |
19 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
20 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
21 | The term mission is a precise one , especially in the light of a discursive shift which is evident from the very first lines of the chapter on adult education which follows : |
22 | As Fig. 4.5 shows , the change of context experienced by group D produced a substantial loss of vigour in the CR , evident from the very first trial of the test . |
23 | She got no further , the words swallowed up as he bent and took her mouth in a punishing kiss that stole her breath from the very first touch of his lips . |
24 | After all , from the very first weeks after the first seizure of power by a Communist Party back in November 1917 , special rations , housing and other privileges had been the order of the day . |
25 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
26 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
27 | Our Lady was given an important place from the very first phases of the movement . |
28 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
29 | As a school involved in the very first year of the project , School A provides an opportunity to observe a school 's involvement in Stage 3 of the project ; that is to say , the development of INSET provision , the further development of library facilities and curriculum innovation , and other by-products of the project . |
30 | In 1946 , in the top front page article in the very first edition of his newspaper , whose title in Arabic means ‘ The people ’ , he urged Arabs to struggle harder to maintain their land in Arab ownership in Palestine . |