Example sentences of "the first [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first we must call Eclectic Gothic : this used red brick and stone facings and , as Cubitt suggested , a variety of designs for towers , some of them quite ingenious . |
| 2 | ‘ The first we knew about it was when people rang up to complain , ’ said Mr Chris Myers , council spokesman . |
| 3 | The first we can call regular , standard , or ordinary treatment , the sort of treatment which any developed , urbanized country should have available for all . |
| 4 | In the first we considered the linguistically motivated division of anaphoric expressions into two broad classes and its possible relation to a theory of how anaphoric expressions are interpreted . |
| 5 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 6 | ‘ It is the first we have heard of it , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 7 | The first we hear about his steam engines is that one was erected near Dudley Castle in the Black Country area of the Midlands in 1712 . |
| 8 | Since , due to familiarity , we are more at home with the second notation than the first we shall adopt it for all binary operations . |
| 9 | The first we reject because it is unrealistically narrow — the inquiry into the possible removal of the interview notes from Warwick Crown Court being a necessary consequence of the appellant 's initial complaint and , as it seems to us , integral to it ; the second , because the parallel investigations into other complaints against the West Midlands Police — no fewer than 103 we were told — and Mr. Shaw 's broader inquiry into the general integrity of the squad and its practices , can not alter the fundamental nature of Superintendent Fancott 's inquiry . |
| 10 | Staff in Virgin 's international department grew to accept the fact of opening Music Week to read that Virgin now had offices in fifteen countries ( a slight exaggeration ) , and would shortly open in a further five ( It 's the first we 've heard of it , Richard has to be kidding ! ) . |
| 11 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
| 12 | The first We did n't get any wages . |
| 13 | The first we have already used , namely that , and this is held to apply to all relaxation times in the distribution . |
| 14 | Everybody get trouble sometime , and this may be the first for you — the first we hear about . |
| 15 | We have also presented two examples of how rational expectations introduce testable restrictions : in the first we examined the relationship between the spot and the forward exchange rates and in the second we examined the implications for the term structure of interest rates . |
| 16 | As an example of the first we can cite pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs . |
| 17 | The first we call the " factual survey " , which aims at collecting facts about the conditions of populations . |
| 18 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |
| 19 | That 's the first we 've erm |
| 20 | But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week . |
| 21 | The first they could probably do without , the second will probably fill the Lions with pride . |
| 22 | It was a warm evening , the first they had experienced , and the lawns smelled of lilac . |
| 23 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 24 | In doing the first they meet the need for accountability to the wider public , but they are less successful in the second — development of good practice . |
| 25 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 26 | That 's the first they started in Orkney . |
| 27 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 28 | There was talk in the racing press of her being retained by one of the country 's top trainers for next season , but that was the first she 'd heard about it . |
| 29 | From the first she took her meals with Anna . |
| 30 | David 's was one of the first she organised , but Marie was impressed with the ceremony . |