Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was the year I went on my first diet . |
| 8 | When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting . |
| 9 | Last year we moved into our first flat . |
| 10 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |