Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 2 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 3 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 4 | If you get the green light from the Head , then get together with any friends who are ready to help and any teachers who have offered support to discuss what should happen at your first meeting . |
| 5 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 6 | It 's a fresh , young style you might use for your first home , or if you want to start anew in your lounge or bedroom . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , I 'll see to it first thing . ’ |
| 8 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |
| 9 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 10 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 11 | Let's go to our first call and erm that 's good . |
| 12 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 13 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 14 | I can see a marriage that is not a marriage and a parson who is not a parson , and you will die of your first child . |
| 15 | Now , let's start with your first problem . |
| 16 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 17 | With this rather crude model of chemical reactions , we can return to our first question : why do only certain particular reactions occur in cells ? |