Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 2 | ‘ Needless to say , there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager — but a few worried expressions when I scored five in the first seven games ! |
| 3 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 4 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 5 | I went back to the Knitmaster with a 302 , then a 321 and through the gamut until I had one of the first Electronic 500 models ; still with that , I bought a push button Brother for the lace , then the 840 , and 910 and finally the 950i — now I have that and the Passap Duomatic 80 . |
| 6 | I missed most of the first war with him actually . |
| 7 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 9 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 10 | In October 1871 she became one of the first five students at Newnham College , Cambridge , founded by Henry Sidgwick [ q.v. ] with Anne Clough [ q.v. ] , a Bulley family friend , in charge . |
| 11 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 12 | Driving a Mitsubishi with friend Silka Fritzinger , She finished 27th after the first day . |
| 13 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 14 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 15 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 16 | Well why do n't you get two for the first day , and then and then then they 're not |
| 17 | Just to be safe , turn off the electricity and remove the fuses for the downstairs lighting Circuit and the upstairs ring main while you do this on the first floor — these cables are under the floorboards . |
| 18 | She held one of the first Beit research fellowships ( 1910–14 ) , and worked at the Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine with ( Sir ) Arthur Harden [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 20 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 21 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 22 | find a cure erm perhaps we should try and think about why we get depressed in the first place , I know there 's lot of people who co , here have had problems . |
| 23 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 24 | They charge 4 for the first hour and 3 for the next . |
| 25 | They have 75 for the first readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 8 1992 to try . |
| 26 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |
| 27 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 28 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 29 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 30 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |