Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
3 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
4 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
5 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
6 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
7 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
8 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
9 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
10 | Can I just take the panel back through the er l back to basics on this matter in terms of the Greater in terms of Greater York and the the areas searched , firstly I think the first point of fact , there 's no part of that sector as far as I 'm aware that 's subject to any landscape designations either national or local . |
11 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |
12 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
13 | you mean the first half of the table ? |
14 | The one you read the first page of every night . " |
15 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
16 | Starting your career at any Fourth Division club , you open the first page of your footy diary . |
17 | maybe this year because it 's you know the first kind of year of it |
18 | But it , yeah , I mean I quite take all of these qualifications but if sh if you take the first couple of paragraphs does n't it seem to be a call to , to radical land reform ? |
19 | You spend the first week of your holiday here in Zakopane transferring on Saturday for your second week at Brno Lake Czechoslovakia . |
20 | You spend the first week of your holiday here , at Brno Lake and surrounding area , transferring to Hungary on Mondays for your second week at Alsopahok . |
21 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
22 | Here is where we get the first hint of dialogue between the atmospheric gases and the radiations from the sky : for the radiations provide the energy for many of these reactions to occur . |
23 | Here we get the first hint of why those in the occult and the New Age of paganism use special techniques and paraphernalia . |
24 | If , then , we define the first aim of college as being to provide an intellectual training in the useful arts , we might leave both schools to continue their debate on what exactly constitutes usefulness in a rapidly-changing economic and social world . |
25 | If we take the first sentence of extract ( I ) as S , and present it below as ( 2a ) , we can also present the negation of S , as ( 2b ) , and the logical presupposition , S' , as ( 2c ) . |
26 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
27 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
28 | They receive the first prize of £4,000 . |
29 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
30 | Macrophages are crucial cells in the immune and inflammatory events ongoing in the intestinal musoca ; being scattered just beneath the epithelium , they represent the first line of defence . |