Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 2 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Never been able to drink instant since I went to America the first time . |
| 4 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 5 | But I st I stayed in Dolgarrog the first two years . |
| 6 | She ventured upon deck the first morning , and was approached by not one but three potential beaux , each with his hair curled and exuding a powerful odour of bergamot . |
| 7 | Practically what that means , is when you get to March the first , you would archive January and insert April . |
| 8 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 9 | She put into words the first question of many that instantly sprang into her head . |
| 10 | ‘ We sail on January the first . |
| 11 | He himself made history when , in 1984 , he donated over 1,200 pictures and objects to a foundation he established in Warsaw the first such institution since the war . |