Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
2 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
3 | Allow myself to be spirited off to Germany where I assassinate Hitler at the first opportunity ? ’ |
4 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
5 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
6 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
7 | ‘ I told Cadogan after the first hour . |
8 | So I put teddy in the first |
9 | I meet Perry for the first time at the Starry Arms in Kentish Town . |
10 | I attend college for the first time in weeks . |
11 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
12 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
13 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
14 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
15 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
16 | Er yeah and I think people in the first term are quite attracted to it because it does n't seem to have much on the timetable erm |
17 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
18 | I had problems in the first half against Scotland . |
19 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
20 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
21 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
22 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
23 | Most experienced pilots and instructors do n't remember their own early flights and do n't realise that sensations which cause discomfort on a first flight will not even be noticed by the hardened pilot or instructor . |
24 | In the first experiment our source is a not very accurate gun which sprays bullets onto the first screen . |
25 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
26 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
27 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
28 | Another famous event is the Car Rally ( Rally Vinho da Madeira ) which takes place on the first weekend in August . |
29 | Morpurgo — Harry did not doubt that it was Morpurgo — was a tall , awkward-looking figure in beret , muddied boiler suit and galoshes , feeding the incinerator with needless energy , forcing the rake-held bundles down into its smoking contents with disquieting relish , with an intensity , indeed , which warned Harry from the first that something was amiss . |
30 | The software included a second k-D matrix which recorded errors in the first matrix . |