Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] and [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 2 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 3 | The history of its formation and of the first hundred years fills the following pages . |
| 4 | After a week in Lerwick the work there and the night life began to lose its attraction and with the first lull in the weather we poked our nose out of the north end of Bressay Sound — and wished we had not . |
| 5 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 6 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 7 | The wife obligingly lifted her arm and for the first time there was a flash of something pale , as if to show that there really was flesh and blood beneath the shapeless black garment . |
| 8 | In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights . |
| 9 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 10 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
| 11 | In 1981 there were thirty-seven meetings of his Cabinet and during the first term the flow of routine domestic-policy business was routed through seven cabinet committees . |
| 12 | Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received . |