Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 2 | ‘ Needless to say , there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager — but a few worried expressions when I scored five in the first seven games ! |
| 3 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 4 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 5 | I went back to the Knitmaster with a 302 , then a 321 and through the gamut until I had one of the first Electronic 500 models ; still with that , I bought a push button Brother for the lace , then the 840 , and 910 and finally the 950i — now I have that and the Passap Duomatic 80 . |
| 6 | I missed most of the first war with him actually . |
| 7 | George Lansbury himself became one of the first reforming Poor Law Guardians in East London in the 1890s , and the social legislation of the Liberals , including the state Old Age Pension introduced in 1908 , was a direct response to the rising political influence of the labour movement . |
| 8 | The reasons for their getting involved in the first place are multiplex , involving many related processes , which I will endeavour to uncover . |
| 9 | Gryshenko , co-skipper of the yacht Fazisi , which finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race , left a note to his wife and parents . |
| 10 | The Story of the Fraserburgh Lifeboats takes a similar look at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station , which had one of the first lifeboats to be built and which was also the first RNLI lifeboat station in Scotland . |
| 11 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 12 | St Andrews-born Andy Thomson and his England international colleague , Gary Smith , produced the quickest win of the day , needing just 14 ends to secure a straight sets win over Welsh pair Colin Edwards and Ieuan Terry , who led 3-2 in the first set but never scored again as their opponents recovered to win 7-3 , 7-0 , 7-0 . |
| 13 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | But Harris , who made 47 in the first innings and Puddle who promoted himself in the batting order had other ideas . |
| 15 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 16 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 17 | In October 1871 she became one of the first five students at Newnham College , Cambridge , founded by Henry Sidgwick [ q.v. ] with Anne Clough [ q.v. ] , a Bulley family friend , in charge . |
| 18 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 19 | Burnell toiled to a 75 , while Hutt , who birdied two of the first three holes after lunch , then took seven at the 4th , including two penalty strokes from grounding his club in a water hazard . |
| 20 | Driving a Mitsubishi with friend Silka Fritzinger , She finished 27th after the first day . |
| 21 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 22 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 23 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 24 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 25 | Well why do n't you get two for the first day , and then and then then they 're not |
| 26 | Just to be safe , turn off the electricity and remove the fuses for the downstairs lighting Circuit and the upstairs ring main while you do this on the first floor — these cables are under the floorboards . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , it was her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother , who sounded one of the first notes of caution . |
| 28 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 30 | She held one of the first Beit research fellowships ( 1910–14 ) , and worked at the Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine with ( Sir ) Arthur Harden [ q.v . ] . |