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 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 3 | The reasons for their getting involved in the first place are multiplex , involving many related processes , which I will endeavour to uncover . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 8 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 9 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 15 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 16 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |