Example sentences of "[unc] [pron] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 2 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 3 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
| 4 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 5 | erm I think the first answer is that erm not all historians go into archives . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 8 | With two World Cups now under the IB 's belt though , it seems pretty clear from the post mortems which followed the first event in Australia and New Zealand , and the one held nine months ago in France , the U.K. and Ireland , that making money in this new era of professionalism is almost as important , if not equal in importance , to the game itself . |