Example sentences of "the first words [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too . |
| 2 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 3 | Moreover , few would dispute that this apparent decline is a reality : the first words of the Prime Minister herself , after the result of the 1987 election was known , were an acknowledgement of the challenge posed to Government by the ‘ inner cities ’ . |
| 4 | His words emerged from silence , as if they were the first words of the evening . |
| 5 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 6 | The first words of Jesus in Luke 's Gospel show how Jesus claims to be the anointed one . |
| 7 | At the heart of almost all of Thom 's lyrics is a sense of alienation from his surroundings , whether it 's expressed in ‘ Creep ’ 's whispered final line , ‘ I do n't belong here ’ , or the first words of the last single ‘ Prove Yourself ’ , ‘ I ca n't afford to breathe in this town ’ . |
| 8 | The big scroll in the frieze between Pope Calixtus II and the Emperor Henry V contained the first words of the text of the Concordat of Worms of 1122 , with the rest of the text to be found elsewhere in the hall . |
| 9 | In fact it could be very significant that the first words of the poem are , I imagine , because what does the poet , what do any of us do , we sit down to write something . |
| 10 | ‘ Look what Mr Dobson gave me ! ’ were the first words from the little girl as Lisa had hurried through her next-door neighbour Josey 's front door . |
| 11 | After a fortnight of uncertainty on the slopes of Everest , the first words from a mountaineering legend , for his girlfriend and family . |
| 12 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |