Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 2 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 3 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 4 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I looked back at the first . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 9 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 10 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 11 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 18 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 19 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 20 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 21 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 22 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 23 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 24 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 25 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 28 | We did n't , we did n't on the first request . |
| 29 | ‘ I think we did well in the first game at Ibrox , despite the result . |
| 30 | 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 . |