Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 2 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 3 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |
| 4 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 5 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 6 | I had n't the first idea what she meant . |
| 7 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
| 8 | Yeah , the first thing I 've ever the first time I 've shaved my legs , I forgot the water . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't the first idea , ’ he said in deliberate clipped tones . |
| 10 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 11 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 12 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 13 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 14 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 15 | The Burnham Committee , which had since the First World War been responsible for determining the salaries of teachers , now produced a unified scheme , making no formal distinction between the remuneration of teachers in Primary , secondary modern , or grammar schools . |
| 16 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 17 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 18 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 19 | If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on . |
| 20 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 21 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 22 | Strachan who played only the first half engineered Leeds ' first goal with a 29th min cross for Noel Whelan to head in at the near post . |
| 23 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 24 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 25 | Bodley 's view about the literary insignificance of English drama was formally challenged by Ben Jonson who published plays in the Folio edition of his Workes in 1616 and later , and in response to Jonson 's success , by Shakespeare 's first editors , Heminge and Condell , who brought out the First Folio of Shakespeare 's plays in 1623 ( eight years after Shakespeare died ) . |
| 26 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 27 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 28 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 29 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 30 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |