Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 3 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 5 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 6 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 7 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 8 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 9 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 10 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 11 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 12 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 13 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 14 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 15 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 16 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 17 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 18 | As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library . |
| 19 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 20 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 21 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 22 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 23 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 24 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 25 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 26 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 27 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 28 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 29 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 30 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |