Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 2 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 3 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 4 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 5 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 6 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 7 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 8 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 9 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 10 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 11 | He began to run after the first taxi , but it was soon out of sight . |
| 12 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 13 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |