Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm due off the first tee at ten past twelve . |
2 | ‘ But you 've taken me so deep I feel as though I 'm complete for the first time . |
3 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
4 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
5 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
6 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
7 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
8 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
9 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
10 | And , ‘ I was one of the first Medicare patients . |
11 | In February 1990 I was one of the first two secondees from the accountancy profession to join the Investigations Division at the DTI . |
12 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
13 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
14 | But I was er here I was one of the first People have forgotten that there was such a thing as a fitting shop in you know , in . |
15 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
16 | I was one of the first to leave , making my way back to Number 11 unobserved . |
17 | I was fine for the first few pages . |
18 | And I could n't have been , I could n't get out to help him I was stuck between the first and second floor ! |
19 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
20 | I was wrong in the first place . |
21 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
22 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
23 | I liked it all , because I was lonely for the first time in my life , and an itinerant . |
24 | I was full for the first time in two weeks . |
25 | These fees which are PAYABLE at the FIRST MEETING of each year cover the Four meetings held during the year and MUST be paid whether attended or not . |
26 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
27 | Their expeditions recalled the all-male cultural sprees which were commonplace before the first war … |
28 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
29 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
30 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |