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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
2	I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me .
3	Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up .
4	Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn .
5	I walked in at the first door I saw .
6	Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene .
7	I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach .
8	I looked back at the first .
9	I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head .
10	In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor .
11	I went yesterday for the first time .
12	One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’
13	I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne .
14	I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading .
15	And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it .
16	I have right from the first .
17	Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s .
18	I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight .
19	But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ?
20	So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right .
21	‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’
22	She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room .
23	‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’
24	‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack .
25	‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here .
26	Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
27	As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear .
28	When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ?
29	She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
30	No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring .