Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 2 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 3 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 4 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 5 | Its onset coincides with the first appearance of Zea pollen . |
| 6 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 7 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 9 | Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire . |
| 10 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 13 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 14 | LEEDS United 's record buy David Rocastle last night refused to lose heart over his failure to break into the first team at Elland Road . |
| 15 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 16 | His head moves for the first time to follow his eyes and maintain the essential link of communication signals . |
| 17 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 18 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |
| 19 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 20 | Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion . |
| 21 | I think the second line of the new song is ' Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Fergie 's in a sweat' , but what our Deano does in the first line to put old Taggart-face in that state is anybody 's guess . |
| 22 | What has your society achieved in the first century of existence ? |