Example sentences of "the very first [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
2 | I say I saw the very first film of it |
3 | Let us admit that since the FFYP was the very first exercise of its kind in history , it would not be surprising if there were discrepancies , failures of some kind . |
4 | I always had a strong feeling that , once " Bomber " Harris was forced to accept a Target Finding/Marking faction within his Command , one of the very first people to he considered " is founder member would he Jimmy Marks . |
5 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , ’ she had responded , for the very first time since her arrival at Loch Lomond feeling unaccountably awkward and strange . |
6 | Jessamy found herself remembering how it had been the very first time between them , it had been exactly the same , this sudden wanting . |
7 | For the very first time in her life she needed someone . |
8 | Then , for the very first time in my life , a faint light flickered somewhere inside me . |
9 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
10 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |
11 | The very first indications of it are to be seen in the helplessness of a baby . |
12 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
13 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
14 | The very first week upon his beat |
15 | The womb represents the very first place in which life takes form . |
16 | In 1946 , in the top front page article in the very first edition of his newspaper , whose title in Arabic means ‘ The people ’ , he urged Arabs to struggle harder to maintain their land in Arab ownership in Palestine . |
17 | Borland became a thorn in both their sides long ago , with the very first version of what is now an extremely popular spreadsheet . |
18 | She got no further , the words swallowed up as he bent and took her mouth in a punishing kiss that stole her breath from the very first touch of his lips . |