Example sentences of "[prep] the very first [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Borland became a thorn in both their sides long ago , with the very first version of what is now an extremely popular spreadsheet . |
| 9 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 14 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Jim Hacker , said in the very first edition of Yes Minister : ‘ Open government is a contradiction in terms . |
| 19 | And indeed , in the very first chapter of the 1285 statute of Westminster , the chapter ‘ On conditional gifts ’ ( De donis conditionalibus ) , the intention had evidently been to protect the wishes of the original donor of the land with respect to its future possession and use . |
| 20 | Most people caring for diabetic patients realise the importance of the patient actively participating in the very first injection of insulin . |
| 21 | English had a dual role ; as Baldick ( 1984 ) has shown , it was initially used as a sop to women who were demanding higher education ; in the very first intake of students of English at Oxford University , the majority of them were women . |
| 22 | This word spirit appears in the very first verse of the Bible , where it states that the Earth was without form and void . |
| 23 | However , in the very first debate in the House after the shadow Chancellor 's statement , up pops the hon. Gentleman and , in the first intervention from the Opposition Front Bench , says , ’ Spend more , spend more . ’ |
| 24 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 25 | In its original form my article on Syllabubs appeared in the very first number of Nova , in March 1965 . |
| 26 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 27 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 28 | If the gun misfires on the very first shot of the game then something spectacular and unusual has happened . |
| 29 | No sooner back than at the very first race of the 1982 season , at Kyalami , controversy broke out again . |
| 30 | ‘ At the very first sign of such an act … ’ |