Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 2 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 3 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 4 | If the patina chemical is too strong , dilute with a little water and , if using it for the first time , do a test on a sample piece of copper . |
| 5 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 6 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 9 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 10 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 11 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 12 | Sam looked at the revolver as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 13 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 14 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 15 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 16 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 17 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 18 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 19 | Finally , to help you formulate your business plans and guide you through the first years , The Institute of Business counsellors is offering ten business counselling sessions for the first three prize winners and five each for the three runners-up . |
| 20 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 21 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 22 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 23 | Caroline , in her Souvenirs intimes , remarks that ‘ Fëlicitë and her parrot really lived ’ and directs us towards the first Trouville parrot , that of Captain Barbey , as the true ancestor of Loulou . |
| 24 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 25 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 26 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 27 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 28 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 29 | When he stood Godfather in Fowey , custom demanded that on the way to the christening he should carry the traditional cake and offer it to the first person he saw . |
| 30 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |