Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 2 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 3 | I remember that at the first European Council which my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and I attended together , in Stuttgart , it was reaffirmed as a clear objective . |
| 4 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 5 | Cos if you left that with the first signatory you 'd never see it again . |
| 6 | He was serious , it 's his get out from telling you to say that in the first place |
| 7 | Yes we know that from the first of April ninety-five it will probably no longer be the responsibility of the county council to set a budget for the Wiltshire police authority . |
| 8 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 9 | Mindful again of the difficulties of testing the significance of the data statistically , we note that in the first scene Anderson only allocates a turn clearly to McKendrick six times out of 43 turns ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 10 | Notes by the Rector about his establishments survive and we learn that in the first year of the new Sunday School there were 45 male and 32 female attendees . |
| 11 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 12 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 13 | I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen this survey — Has he noticed that for the first time , in February , the indices for orders and output show a rise ? |
| 14 | In The Form he comments that in the first two degrees it is possible to say " I languysch for lufe " or " Me langes in lufe " ( 106.53 – 4 ) but in the third degree all is comfort and joy . |
| 15 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 16 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 17 | He said that during the first interview Hepburn had denied any involvement , but when seen again 40 minutes later ‘ frankly said that he was responsible for the assaults on both girls ’ . |
| 18 | Let us say that in the first place man is a creature responding intelligently or stupidly to his surroundings , much as an animal does . |