Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I looked back at the first . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 11 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 12 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 13 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 16 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 17 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 18 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 19 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 20 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 21 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 22 | because we get back to the first chapter , verse nine . |
| 23 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 24 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 25 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 26 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 27 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 28 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 29 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 30 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |