Example sentences of "first [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , as you rework the question into your first sentence you can begin to show that key terms in the question are problematic or vague , or you can suggest what kind of evidence you will draw on to discuss the question . |
| 2 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 3 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 4 | The first birds we see are a group of turnstones and a redshank , busily feeding in the park below the house , probing into the area of damaged grass where my neighbour 's sheep are fed . |
| 5 | And one of the first birds we saw ? |
| 6 | For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism . |
| 7 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 8 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 9 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 10 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 11 | In one of the first cases he had taken , in 1923 , it must have been , the year after he came back — Fantina was still a baby — a widow had accused her neighbour of killing her cow out of spite . |
| 12 | The first decision you 'll need to make is whether to buy a basic microwave , a model with a grill , or a combination oven that integrates the speed of a microwave with the browning and crisping of conventional heat . |
| 13 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 14 | He said the first verb he 'd learned was ‘ to love ’ and the first noun ‘ a table ’ , bizarre beginnings to a vocabulary with no connection between the parts . |
| 15 | The first authorities we meet on the Celts , Ephorus and Timaeus , are typical armchair historians . |
| 16 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 17 | Still , I 'll say this for you : you 're the first Scotsman I 've met who 's prepared to put his hand in his pocket for a round of drinks . ’ |
| 18 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 19 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 20 | Under the first category they considered the intrusive gathering and dissemination of information by the publicity media , the handling of credit information , unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters at work and in education and medicine , prying by neighbours and landlords , and intrusive sales methods . |
| 21 | ‘ In the first category we have criminal cases , judicial review and cases which involve matrimonial status and the welfare of children or those under a disability . |
| 22 | In the first category we may mention Kettner 's The Development of American Citizenship 1608–1870 ( 1978 ) and more particularly Pocock 's influential The Machiavellian Moment ( 1975 ) . |
| 23 | Into the first category we can place the work of Ferrier and Fritz and Hitzig , who showed that previous ambiguous results in studies of experimental brain damage in animals were due to inadequately sized and placed lesions . |
| 24 | In the first category we work to prevent effects which might otherwise take place , not necessarily working directly with the child . |
| 25 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 26 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 27 | One of Gary Speeds first outings I believe . |
| 28 | Naturally , you can upgrade the processor , but this is the first PC I 've seen that has a socket for Intel 's yet-to-be-released Pentium 586 processor . |
| 29 | Learning to pronounce the address ‘ Quatorze rue du Perre , Place Pigalle ’ to a taxi driver was the first hurdle they had to overcome : |
| 30 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |