Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 2 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 3 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 4 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 5 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 6 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 7 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 8 | I have right from the first . |
| 9 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 10 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 11 | With further financing and other assistance from the Rural Development Commission and the local authority ( the borough of Pendle encompasses both towns ) , the building was expensively adapted to fulfil his second major contract , which followed hard upon the first . |
| 12 | The additional list of tempos by Czerny for Mozart quartets and quintets in table 1 , which appears here for the first time , also shows a similarly wide range of minuet tempos , from slow to fast ( for quartets and quintets , dotted minim = 44–84 ; together with the list of tempos by Czerny and Hummel for the Mozart symphonies , dotted minim = 42–88 see table 2 of my 1988 Early music article ) . |
| 13 | I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight . |
| 14 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 15 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 18 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 21 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 22 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 23 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 24 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 25 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 26 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 27 | The tale of two young men , friends in boyhood , who serve together in the First World War may sound like something Rolf Harris would sing about , but there 's more to it than that . |
| 28 | obviously but I think you need clearly in the first instance to use that |
| 29 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 30 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |