Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’
2 The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day .
3 Project number 1 on the first list , which derived from the first reconnaissance , was to ‘ Develop a worldwide communications system ’ For various reasons the project was not taken forward but Save The Children have continued to take the view that good communications , within the Field and between Field and HQ , is of the highest priority .
4 Indeed there are West African sites , where copper was mined or refined , which date from the first millennium BC and perhaps even the second .
5 The ( Presidential ) apartments are as faded as the President ( a reference to the Prince 's dressing in sombre colours ) and the bronze chandeliers which date from the First Empire , in the same style as those of the English Embassy , make decent lighting impossible for there are too few lights in the chandeliers on the wall-brackets , and the candelabras .
6 In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions .
7 Language is , as we see from the first example , an enjoyment that begins before speech ( perhaps before birth ) with rhythms and sounds .
8 Does anybody dissent from the first criterion .
9 It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life .
10 He sipped from the first glass .
11 Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories .
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