Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the very first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner back than at the very first race of the 1982 season , at Kyalami , controversy broke out again . |
| 2 | Her and Fernando , loving , making love as if for the very first time , with urgency and excitement and a fevered rush of emotions . |
| 3 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 4 | It was a particularly bitter blow for Leeds , because in the very first minute they should have levelled the tie . |
| 5 | Because from the very first syllable she had recognised it — even through the door . |