Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 3 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
| 4 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 5 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |
| 6 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 7 | erm the format for these is one of four lectures , in which we revise in the first lecture ideas that are round about sixth form level and then in two lectures following that we take the teacher through , very quickly , the kind of coverage that we give to the topic in the university . |
| 8 | First we need to start with the ‘ givens ’ of the situation — the objective features of the predicament which we reviewed in the first part of the last chapter . |
| 9 | The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction . |
| 10 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 11 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 12 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 13 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 14 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 15 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 16 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 17 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 18 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 19 | You do same what you done with the first used to carry on , you 'd , you have horse give ya , and you look after it . |
| 20 | follow the detailed reasoning or argument ; 2. note what you missed at the first reading ; 3. if you own the book , you may mark key points ; and 4. if you do n't own the book , note key points . |
| 21 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 22 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 23 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 24 | That 's what we remember on the first day we called her in chapel . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 26 | What he got in the first |
| 27 | And so what it does after the first ten minutes , it says , look I 've had enough of this , what 's the grey haired old bugger on about now , oh , |
| 28 | With much-ballyhoo , Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction , from December 1 , of what it describes as the first ‘ risk-graded ’ Personal Equity Plan . |