Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not hungry , I 'll miss out the first course anyway . ’ |
| 2 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
| 3 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 4 | I can remember when the first bit of tarmac was put on a road round here and that down here at Upton bypass and all |
| 5 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |
| 6 | You can cut out the first step generally , and risk your life waiting for the 710710 nu mber to become free , then get details of what areas are still not sold out etc . |
| 7 | You can cut out the first step generally , and risk your life waiting for the 710710 nu mber to become free , then get details of what areas are still not sold out etc . |
| 8 | When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt . |
| 9 | Now any postmultiplying column say{ a , b , c , 1 } , must satisfy unc In performing our iterations , therefore , we may ignore completely the first row of A ; we use the last three rows to find the corresponding elements in a column , and then apply(3) to find the top element . |
| 10 | We have expanded the programme in terms of the number of centres where treatment is provided , and at the beginning of next year we shall carry out the first heart transplant operations in Scotland . |
| 11 | We shall adopt here the first of these solutions , as being the least objectionable of the two . |
| 12 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 13 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |