Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 3 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 6 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 7 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 8 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone tries to get into the first room , two of the three men will fight , but Rupert of Hentzau or Detchard will run into the second room and kill the King , ’ Johann said . |
| 10 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 11 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 12 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 13 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 14 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 15 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 16 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 17 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 18 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 19 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 20 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 21 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 22 | As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library . |
| 23 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 24 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 25 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 26 | The devaluation of sterling from September onwards and its significant effect on raw material costs put pressure on margins which has continued into the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 27 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 28 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
| 29 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 30 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |