Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 3 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 4 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 5 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 6 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 7 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 8 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 9 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 13 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 14 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 17 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 18 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 19 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 20 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 21 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 22 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 23 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 24 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 25 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 26 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 27 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 28 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 29 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 30 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |