Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 3 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 4 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 5 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 6 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 7 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 8 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 9 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 10 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 12 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 13 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 14 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 16 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 17 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 18 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 19 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 20 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 21 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 22 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 24 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 25 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 26 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 27 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 28 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 30 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |