Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 2 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 3 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 4 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 5 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 6 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 7 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 8 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 9 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 10 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 11 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 12 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 13 | That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness . |
| 14 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 15 | Unless you are guilty of gross misconduct , it will seldom be fair to dismiss you for a first breach of discipline . |
| 16 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 17 | He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of science , and you as the first novelist of science . ’ |
| 18 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 19 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |
| 20 | This books has been designed : by me in the first place with my subjects , writing and drawings ; then by the print designer . |
| 21 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 22 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 23 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |
| 24 | If you have any complaints , please address them in the first instance to the Warden/Manager who is authorised to deal with them . |
| 25 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 26 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 27 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 28 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 29 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 30 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |