Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informal observations suggest that it first becomes popular as a peer group language at the age of eleven or twelve . |
| 2 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 3 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 4 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 5 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 6 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 7 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 8 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 9 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |
| 10 | All this assumes , of course , that the doctor 's duty demands that he first satisfy himself that the patient is capable of making a rational decision . |
| 11 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
| 12 | We heard raised voices from the main hall but Benjamin insisted that we first walk out on to the porchway and take the morning air . |
| 13 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
| 15 | Let us suppose the client suggests that they first wish to overcome their difficulties in using public transport , specifically buses . |
| 16 | He suggests that we first obtain estimates of α and β , say and , from an ordinary least-squares regression of equation ( 3.49a ) . |
| 17 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |