Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 2 | ‘ I still remember the first name you told me . ’ |
| 3 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 4 | I double take the first glimpse |
| 5 | I dimly recall the first broadcast performance of this piece in the 1940s and rarely lose an opportunity of hearing any new recording of it . |
| 6 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 7 | Some longer than others , I never forget the first day in Liverpool , I was a |
| 8 | I never forget the first morsel of professional advice I received : ‘ Play your own game , son , but keep the ball moving . ’ |
| 9 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 10 | Transfer to the BA Hons Irish Studies is possible for students who successfully complete the first year of the Diploma of Higher Education in Irish Studies ( see page 151 ) . |
| 11 | But you always remember the first time . |
| 12 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 13 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 14 | By doing so , we effectively answered the first part of the question of principle raised by the appeal , and decided that the court has the power in its inherent jurisdiction to override W. 's refusal to undergo the necessary treatment . |
| 15 | We eventually finished the first day 's walking . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 17 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 18 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 19 | In their writings we also see the first attempt to express the reality of the mystical life in the English language . |
| 20 | We then created the first product which heart attacks , strokes , cancers and certain coronary artery disease , which I can see . |
| 21 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 22 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 23 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 24 | They also returned the first colour pictures from the surface , which show that the rocks are tinted brown . |
| 25 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 26 | They frequently equate the first phoneme only with the graphic display , and then apply configuration and context cues , or merely wild guessing , to the rest of the word . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 28 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 29 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 30 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |