Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | A twenty-one-year-old mother living alone with her child on a Sunderland estate became pregnant the first she " had sexual intercourse " . |
2 | Given the need for an extensive approach within the limitations noted above , and given that the first stage of the fieldwork demonstrated that heroin users generally confine themselves to specific networks , it was decided to use a ‘ network analysis ’ approach using the technique of snowball sampling , or chain referral ( Fraser and Hawkins 1984 , p. 82 ) . |
3 | Given that the first best solution of achieving SEM type trade liberalisation on a global basis is not possible because of very large economic and political problems , the second best SEM programme may not be harmful to world trade providing that an expansion in world trade takes place as a result of this programme . |
4 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
5 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
6 | It is has already transformed areas of information use such as industrial , professional and academic research and has made possible the first practical real-time information services . |
7 | About one in three adults can do this the first time they try it . |
8 | ‘ Anyway , when I found out how well-known he was , I made sure the first spot was very organised . |
9 | The Heritage range is the most flexible because cantilever cross frames are used to carry all the first floor loads and most of the roof , leaving internal divisions largely a matter of choice . |
10 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |
11 | In fact he spent all the first winter of the war pontooning , and then was driving lorries on bomb disposal . |
12 | Most people feel homesick the first time they leave home , no matter how old they are . |
13 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
14 | One sherpa , Tensing Norgay , accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary and became one the first men to climb Mount Everest . |
15 | went wrong the first time do you ? |
16 | I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney . |
17 | Usko thought this the first systematic collation of these languages . |
18 | She concentrated on Durance instead and said : ‘ You saw this the first time on the Jonquil , did n't you ? |
19 | " He kept telling me I could n't get pregnant the first time , but I did . " |
20 | He placed the sketch-pad on his knees , flicked open the first page and began to draw . |
21 | ‘ I intend leaving this the first moment I can for Sydney hence to Hobart Town to see you , although it will verily interfere with my pursuits . |
22 | After shooting the woman from the council house and her baby , and his mother , Larry had walked into Bishops Linctus and shot dead the first three people he met , wounding several others . |
23 | Kate Miskin pushed open the first door on the left and stood aside for Dalgliesh and Massingham to enter . |
24 | On the landing he pushed open the first bedroom door , and there in front of him was Sarah Ryan . |