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 .
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