Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 3 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 5 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 6 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 7 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 8 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 9 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 10 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 11 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 12 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 13 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
| 14 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |
| 15 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 16 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 17 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 18 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 19 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 20 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 21 | Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House . |
| 22 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 23 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 24 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 25 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 26 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 27 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 28 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 29 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 30 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |