Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 2 | I 've had him off with that first foul in the first minute , that he committed , ridiculous |
| 3 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 4 | That 's where you graduated from the junior class as a boy , you 'd move up to that first class on this er this long corridor . |
| 5 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 6 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 7 | The disadvantage of this is that the horse misses out on that first year of becoming accustomed to life and its excitements . |
| 8 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 9 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 10 | We will want our fauna to enjoy his fall ( well , at least after that first moment of terror ! ) and eventual arrival on terra firma must be reasonably safe and soft . |
| 11 | Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’ |
| 12 | If she did n't know any better , she would have said she 'd had too much to drink , but apart from that first glass of punch , which she 'd never finished , and then Luke 's celebratory champagne , she had n't touched alcohol all evening . |