Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 2 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 3 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 4 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 5 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Wordsworth wrote all the poems , with the exception of Tintern Abbey , which subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 7 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 8 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 9 | Never , ever was the item you desperately needed in the first bag , second bag … |
| 10 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 11 | What were these what was the sales area of the how much sales area did you actually release in the first half and how much do you expect to go in the second ? |
| 12 | You certainly shoot through the first few ch chapters of that anyway . |
| 13 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 14 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 15 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | Since , for the purpose of this exercise , we are supposing that the December 1983 and November 1985 rates are unknown , we simply copy on the first and last values , 40 and 55 , for January 1984 and October 1985 . |
| 17 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 18 | We then add on a first dynamic element : ( b ) a reservation sales strategy , with a constant reservation price . |
| 19 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 20 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 21 | A small fountain splashed musically in the centre , the clear water dazzling , and Maggie found herself almost stunned for the first time in many years . |
| 22 | Yeah , but they only pay for the first one . |
| 23 | And they normally occur on the first Thursday in May . |
| 24 | Yeah if that one , that Elizabeth Terrace one is , is the one I think it is which is the one fairly near the end in that in that bottom , bottom row I think the live in the first one , they still live in the first one on the corner . |
| 25 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 26 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 27 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 28 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 29 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |
| 30 | The former Highland League player , who also played for Leicester City , Motherwell and Rangers , is now in the midst of his longest run in the first team at Tynecastle . |