Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the first [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 2 | ‘ I still remember the first name you told me . ’ |
| 3 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
| 4 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |
| 5 | And while holidaymakers are whipped up to almost frenzied levels of opportunistic greed by guidebooks which insist that real travellers never pay the first price they are quoted , few have any prospect of coming out of a deal better than the merchant who initiated it . |