Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 32 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 33 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 34 | find a cure erm perhaps we should try and think about why we get depressed in the first place , I know there 's lot of people who co , here have had problems . |
| 35 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 36 | They charge 4 for the first hour and 3 for the next . |
| 37 | They have 75 for the first readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 8 1992 to try . |
| 38 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |
| 39 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 40 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 41 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 42 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 43 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 44 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 45 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 46 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 47 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 48 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 49 | He collected four of the first five wickets and , on the day , had figures of 11–7–8–4 . |
| 50 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 51 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |
| 52 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 53 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 54 | He decorated most of the first half of the 700-page manuscript himself , leaving much of the rest to assistants of lesser ability . |
| 55 | Re-exporting of tropical and semi-tropical products had boomed in the later seventeenth century and although expansion was less rapid thereafter , it held firm through the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century . |
| 56 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 57 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |