Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 2 | In the afternoon we went for our first ever dive with Patrick , Le Ponant 's diving director . |
| 3 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
| 4 | Midfielder who impressed in his first year at Elland Road making several reserve outings and being rewarded with a professional contract . |
| 5 | He announced his intention to nominate , as the new Administrator of the agency , William Ruckelshaus , the man who served as its first Administrator from 1970 to 1973 . |
| 6 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 7 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 8 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 9 | That was the year I went on my first diet . |
| 10 | In the pause I studied by myself first at home , then at my aunt 's home at Salisbury . |
| 11 | His normal hygiene practices were established by the nurse who talked to him first and he was encouraged to continue with these . |
| 12 | When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting . |
| 13 | Last year we moved into our first flat . |
| 14 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 15 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 16 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |