Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 2 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 3 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |
| 4 | Even after your very first lesson , you will probably feel much lighter in yourself . |
| 5 | He had been stripped naked in the oil store , where the incident had occurred during their very first month as apprentices , and his clothes triumphantly borne aloft to the plating shop to be washed in one of the hot water tanks . |
| 6 | I never thought I 'd be saying this but I 'm now the proud owner of my very first home . |
| 7 | Marcus had looked , in this latest showing or manifestation , since he came to London , young and alert , not in the long-haired beauty of his very first appearance , but more in a sleek glowing tigerish handsomeness . |
| 8 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 9 | So , at the very last moment of our very first film , we nearly got the fire we did n't want , and we began to feel more sanguine about the pyromania we had tried to incite the night before . |
| 10 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 11 | Yet with their very first attack , the visitors struck a cruel blow . |
| 12 | But it was another substitute , Kenny Brown , who dealt the final blow for the hammers , with his very first touch of the match . |
| 13 | The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art also shows his cameras including his very first Rolleiflex and his vital contact sheets ; showing how painstaking was the search for the right shot . |
| 14 | And if you need more encouragement , remember that your fiver will also get you into our very first ‘ Vintage And Collectable ’ show , unearthing a plethora of oldies including Gibsons , Fenders , Martins , Gretsches and more — some expensive , some cheap , and some just plain weird . |
| 15 | When I was forty I suffered from my very first migraine , I was in bed for five days with it . |
| 16 | Border 's batsmen lost their stride in their very first game against New Zealand when the Kiwi skipper , Martin Crowe , opened his bowling with Kipak Patel 's off-spin . |
| 17 | She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year . |
| 18 | In its very first vintage , Carden Park became the holder of the English Vineyard 's Association 's coveted Gold Seal in 1990 . |
| 19 | Children appear to observe Conventionality from their very first words . |
| 20 | From their very first meeting she had known he was a man in control of himself and his life . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ If we are to give full moral worth to such persons , runs the argument , then we have to give full moral worth to the whole history from its very first moment . |
| 22 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 23 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 24 | Hincmar in his very first sentence , made clear his assumption that " great men " could also be " wise " . |
| 25 | David was sacked from his very first job at Vic Furlongs Music Shop in Bromley ; he was working there whilst still at school but , as Vic describes , ‘ He was a day-dreamer and had to be gotten rid of . ’ |
| 26 | No composer today knows better how to have fun in his music than Malcolm Arnold , and these five overtures — from his very first orchestral work , Beckus the Dandipratt , completed in 1943 , to The Fair Field of 1973 — have their full measure of it . |
| 27 | As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition . |
| 28 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 29 | ‘ From our very first encounter , ’ Fen growled , ‘ I 've seen more of you without clothes than with them on . ’ |
| 30 | Whilst flying back from visiting relatives in Denmark on my very first trip abroad , the second worst nightmare happened . |