Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
2 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
3 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
4 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
5 | We do not know who the first organist in the old church were . |
6 | As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it . |
7 | He did not hear her the first time , she had to repeat what she said . |
8 | The retailer should not sell you the first slice and the second cut should be of a bright , usually pink colour . |
9 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
10 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
11 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
12 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
13 | I did n't believe it the first time either . ’ |
14 | It is most unlikely that without the reformulation a hearer would have even understood what the first segment was about . |
15 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
16 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
17 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
18 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |