Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 2 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 3 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 4 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 5 | PROUD DAD : Alan beams — but Chloe sleeps through her first public appearance Pictures : HARRY PAGE |
| 6 | Scottish rider Niall Mackenzie retired after five laps when his Yamaha developed engine trouble , and mechanical problems also forced out Londoner Peter Graves , who qualified for his first grand prix , and Irishman Eddie Laycock . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 8 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 9 | You 're ready to go for your first sail . |
| 10 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 11 | You can also apply for financing for your first home , a mortgage for a holiday home and re-mortgaging facilities . |
| 12 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 14 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 15 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 16 | The influence of Pater — which lies beneath Edward 's undergraduate article on the ‘ Frontiers of English Prose ’ with its carefully argued refusal to draw distinctions between prose and poetry — developed during his first non-collegiate year at Oxford . |
| 17 | She will be paid £4.5 million for the follow-up , compared with the £1.5 million she got for her first Disney singing-nun movie . |
| 18 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 19 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 20 | ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’ |
| 21 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |
| 22 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 23 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 24 | The oak refectory table with a drawer at each end is a copy of the dining room table Lutyens designed for his first married home . |
| 25 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 26 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 27 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 28 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 29 | Ireland , bidding for their first championship win , have axed stand-off Niall Malone in favour of new cap Eric Elwood of Lansdowne , and switched wingers Richard Wallace and Simon Geoghegan . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |