Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've recorded a lot of stuff with song writers whose work I like , but I 'll probably do a cover version as my first single because , as a TV presented I 'm bound to get a lot of flak at first . ’ |
2 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |
3 | The Cure are pop 's truest Lost Boys , still — 14 years after their first professional recording — bravely confronting the desires and dilemmas of sensitive adolescence . |
4 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
5 | Patients were entered into the study after their first upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy showed Barrett 's oesophagus . |
6 | After their first post-Wales reunion , on the evening of 19 September '98 , he wrote to her fearfully about the results of their intimacy : |
7 | The subsequent regression equation was able to predict 89% of the patients who will die and 97% of the patients who will still be alive six weeks after their first variceal haemorrhage treated by sclerotherapy . |
8 | Among the 102 patients with parenchymal cirrhosis , 42 died from time zero to 12 months after their first variceal haemorrhage . |
9 | Sitting next to Peter , 24 , she said she was unaware of the mix-up until there was a knock at the door after their first full day at home with Gemma . |
10 | Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after its first Christian Emperor and remained capital of a vast polyglot empire until its capitulation to Mohammedanism in 1453 . |
11 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
12 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
13 | In 1914 , three years after her first public concerts , she and her mother moved to Berlin to a life of considerable hardship , until Joachim 's daughter-in-law discovered her talents and arranged some scholarships for her to allow her to study with Huberman . |
14 | Despite this downward movement , the Central Statistical Office calculates that £2.47 would be needed today to match the buying power of £1 when Mrs Thatcher quoted Saint Francis of Assisi after her first Conservative victory . |
15 | ( Yet despite leaving his cell quite old and grey after his first five-year stint there , he seems to shed almost ten years within weeks . ) |
16 | Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
17 | ‘ Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
18 | Robins , clutching the ball after his first senior hat-trick , said : ‘ Comparisons are bound to be made because I 've just scored three on TV and United are struggling . |
19 | Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions . |
20 | Women who did not tell anybody else about their first sexual experience 25% |
21 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
22 | Her experience during rehearsal for her first Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium in November 1988 also taught her a lesson . |
23 | On the morning of the sixth day , Hullabaloo and Artemis jumped a line of good hedges in perfect harmony , and by the end of the first week Annellie Clyde considered her pupil ready for her first full day out . |
24 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
25 | For her first post- Peaks movie , Sherilyn Fenn ( left ) stars as archetypal floozie Candy Cane , a mix of Marilyn Monroe and all the women JFK ever slept with ( OK , maybe not quite all of them ) in the latest assassination flic Ruby . |
26 | Even Admiral Hyman Rickover , father and all-powerful master of the US Navy 's nuclear programme , who had hitherto blocked all Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear submarine development and had a well-known contempt for all things British , agreed not only to Britain purchasing an American reactor for her first nuclear submarine , Dreadnought , but also for the reactor to be the most recent second-generation version , thus saving Britain valuable time and development costs . |
27 | Eight years of isolation , broken only by the ‘ buying-in ’ of the 1986 Cavaliers and 1989 World XV tours , subsequently came to an end in Durban when the New Zealanders kicked off their first official tour on South African soil for 15 years . |
28 | My Lord Mayor , the Local Management of Schools scheme er was reviewed first in the light of consultation which went on during its first full year of operation . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | FIG. 2 Regressions of length mortality data against the number of days a cohort had been under observation during its first growing season , with the line forced through the origin . |