Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 2 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 3 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 4 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 5 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 6 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 7 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 8 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 9 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 10 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 11 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 12 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 13 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 14 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 15 | That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness . |
| 16 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 17 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 18 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 19 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 20 | This improved the price-competitiveness of Turkish exports , which in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 10 per cent over the previous year , with Germany continuing as their largest single-country market . |
| 21 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 22 | These courses were taught by the college librarian , who for the first time in Britain was included on the teaching staff of the college on a teaching scale , and styled " Tutor-Librarian " . |
| 23 | Unless you are guilty of gross misconduct , it will seldom be fair to dismiss you for a first breach of discipline . |
| 24 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 25 | He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of science , and you as the first novelist of science . ’ |
| 26 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 27 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 28 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 29 | My title is intended to bring to your mind H V Morton , Henry Vollam Morton ( 1892–1979 ) , who in the first half of this century wrote one of the most popular series of travel books ever . |
| 30 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |