Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb base] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I still remember the first name you told me . ’ |
| 2 | I double take the first glimpse |
| 3 | I dimly recall the first broadcast performance of this piece in the 1940s and rarely lose an opportunity of hearing any new recording of it . |
| 4 | Some longer than others , I never forget the first day in Liverpool , I was a |
| 5 | I never forget the first morsel of professional advice I received : ‘ Play your own game , son , but keep the ball moving . ’ |
| 6 | But you always remember the first time . |
| 7 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 8 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 9 | In their writings we also see the first attempt to express the reality of the mystical life in the English language . |
| 10 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 11 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 12 | They frequently equate the first phoneme only with the graphic display , and then apply configuration and context cues , or merely wild guessing , to the rest of the word . |
| 13 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |