Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 3 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 4 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 5 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
| 6 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 7 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 8 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 9 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 10 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 11 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 12 | Can I just take the panel back through the er l back to basics on this matter in terms of the Greater in terms of Greater York and the the areas searched , firstly I think the first point of fact , there 's no part of that sector as far as I 'm aware that 's subject to any landscape designations either national or local . |
| 13 | Well on a Monday okay I have an hour in the morning , I have the first hour in the morning and er oh God . |
| 14 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |
| 15 | you mean the first half of the table ? |
| 16 | Yeah , when you put the first coat on it . |
| 17 | This should always be double checked when you issue the first invoice to a new customer . |
| 18 | The one you read the first page of every night . " |
| 19 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
| 20 | Starting your career at any Fourth Division club , you open the first page of your footy diary . |
| 21 | maybe this year because it 's you know the first kind of year of it |
| 22 | You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you 're alright then . |
| 23 | If you control the first link in the food chain — the seed — you are well on the way to controlling the whole food chain . |
| 24 | But you would n't have C command , I mean that if you take the first structure in seven , that 's just the one in T three . |
| 25 | But it , yeah , I mean I quite take all of these qualifications but if sh if you take the first couple of paragraphs does n't it seem to be a call to , to radical land reform ? |
| 26 | You see the first church in our parish , was in here . |
| 27 | mine are you see the first week in December . |
| 28 | You spend the first week of your holiday here in Zakopane transferring on Saturday for your second week at Brno Lake Czechoslovakia . |
| 29 | You spend the first week of your holiday here , at Brno Lake and surrounding area , transferring to Hungary on Mondays for your second week at Alsopahok . |
| 30 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |