Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 2 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 3 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 4 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 5 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 6 | I looked back at the first . |
| 7 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 8 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 9 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 10 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 11 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 12 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 13 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 14 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 15 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 16 | With further financing and other assistance from the Rural Development Commission and the local authority ( the borough of Pendle encompasses both towns ) , the building was expensively adapted to fulfil his second major contract , which followed hard upon the first . |
| 17 | I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight . |
| 18 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 21 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 22 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 23 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 24 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 25 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 26 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 27 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 28 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 29 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 30 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |