Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 2 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 3 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 4 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 5 | that 's that for when I 've done the first ten tapes . |
| 6 | But I 've put the first hot foments on the two affected parts , ’ I explained . |
| 7 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 8 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |