Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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1 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
2 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
3 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
4 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
5 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
6 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
7 | ‘ Have n't seen you since your first trip in the basket lift . |
8 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
9 | Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right . |
10 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
11 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
12 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |