Example sentences of "i [vb base] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 3 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 4 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 5 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
| 6 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 7 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 8 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 9 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 10 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 11 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 12 | Can I just take the panel back through the er l back to basics on this matter in terms of the Greater in terms of Greater York and the the areas searched , firstly I think the first point of fact , there 's no part of that sector as far as I 'm aware that 's subject to any landscape designations either national or local . |
| 13 | Well on a Monday okay I have an hour in the morning , I have the first hour in the morning and er oh God . |
| 14 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |