Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 3 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 4 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |
| 5 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 6 | First we need to start with the ‘ givens ’ of the situation — the objective features of the predicament which we reviewed in the first part of the last chapter . |
| 7 | The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction . |
| 8 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 9 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 10 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 11 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 12 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 13 | Well try the the one you tried in the first equation |
| 14 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 15 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 16 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 17 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 18 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 19 | follow the detailed reasoning or argument ; 2. note what you missed at the first reading ; 3. if you own the book , you may mark key points ; and 4. if you do n't own the book , note key points . |
| 20 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 21 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 23 | What he got in the first |