Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December .
2 I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
3 This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment .
4 to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time .
5 COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment .
6 There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance .
7 ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return .
8 Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’
9 It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time .
10 And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place .
11 I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place .
12 But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan .
13 Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me .
14 ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen .
15 They see it as the first stage in widening contacts with Western Europe .
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