Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 2 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 3 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 4 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 5 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 6 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 7 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 8 | I speak for the first time . |
| 9 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 10 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 11 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 12 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 13 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 14 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 15 | I agree with the first part of what my hon. Friend has said : nuclear power certainly makes a valuable contribution to the environment by curbing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 16 | I think as the first part of their trade campaign . |
| 17 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 18 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 19 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |
| 20 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
| 21 | So what we , we need to go to him I think in the first instance and say we want to do X Y and Z , and if he , if he says fine you know . |
| 22 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
| 23 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 24 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 25 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 26 | Indeed there are West African sites , where copper was mined or refined , which date from the first millennium BC and perhaps even the second . |
| 27 | The ( Presidential ) apartments are as faded as the President ( a reference to the Prince 's dressing in sombre colours ) and the bronze chandeliers which date from the First Empire , in the same style as those of the English Embassy , make decent lighting impossible for there are too few lights in the chandeliers on the wall-brackets , and the candelabras . |
| 28 | As part of the open market , blanket legislation comes into effect across the EC , although the changes mainly apply to the large manufacturers , which come under the first tier of the three-tier approval system . |
| 29 | The factors which come within the first category are those which must exist independently of the substance to be decided . |
| 30 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |