Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the first [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 2 | ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard … |
| 3 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 4 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 5 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |
| 6 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 7 | I said , they 're just coming down the road , I said the first thing your father 'll say , has it got a plug on it ? |
| 8 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 9 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 10 | She remembered the first time she 'd seen him , striding tall and long-legged into the reception area of the TV station , instantly dominating the place by sheer presence alone . |
| 11 | Meg , you had the first word you can have the |
| 12 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 13 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what we did the first night we met . ’ |
| 15 | From what we learned the first evening we were here , Rose is very well heeled and it 's obvious that by sharing her home , Dora enjoys a lot of luxuries she could never afford by herself . |
| 16 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 17 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 18 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 19 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 20 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 21 | Thomas Newcomen became a blacksmith and an ironmonger , and it was in 1705 that , in partnership with Thomas Savery and John Colley , he patented the first engine which made use of steam as a motive power . |
| 22 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 23 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 24 | He took the first job he could find , washing dishes at the Wang Garden , a Chinese restaurant two blocks down the street from the hotel . |
| 25 | He remembered the first time he had come there , his first coveted invitation to the home of one of the richest men in West Germany . |
| 26 | As he walked behind the lawnmower he did n't care for , he remembered the first time he 'd ever seen her . |
| 27 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |
| 28 | There he was , Prince Nicolo Sabatini , standing at the rear of the showroom , completely alone , his arms folded over his chest , watching her exactly as he had the first time she 'd set eyes on him , with such a fierce blend of desire and anger that her heart leaped into her throat . |
| 29 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 30 | He said the first verb he 'd learned was ‘ to love ’ and the first noun ‘ a table ’ , bizarre beginnings to a vocabulary with no connection between the parts . |