Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 2 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
| 3 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 4 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 5 | ‘ I told Cadogan after the first hour . |
| 6 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 8 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 9 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 10 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 11 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
| 12 | I had problems in the first half against Scotland . |
| 13 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 15 | Honest , lovey , ’ the dresser said as she helped Constance into the first dress . |
| 16 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 17 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 19 | If you selected SKIRT from the first menu , the second menu will show a choice of skirt types , otherwise it will show a choice of SLEEVE/ARMHOLE types . |
| 20 | She represented Austria in the first European Women 's Bridge Championship of 1935 ( winning it , and the next in 1936 ) . |
| 21 | As a result , she gave birth to the first mortal man ‘ without sin ’ . |
| 22 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 23 | Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots . |
| 24 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 25 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 26 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 27 | And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million . |
| 28 | The interviews identified a variety of entries into heroin use , based , first , on the relationship between the initiate and the person who introduced him or her to the drug , that is , the social ‘ how ? ’ ; and , secondly , on the reasons given by the users themselves as to why they took heroin in the first place , that is , the personal ‘ why ? ’ . |
| 29 | They fell 15% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity . |
| 30 | They fell 15pc in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity . |