Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 2 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 3 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 4 | George drove past her and into the first lay-by . |
| 5 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 6 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 7 | We shot another 74 and we were as glad of it as in the first round . |