Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] first " in BNC.

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1 Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later .
2 His car was still outside ; it was the open-top Volkswagen Beetle he 'd bought himself on that first day straight from the showroom window .
3 She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side .
4 For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course .
5 The first inch yields a higher marginal benefit to your neighbour than the amount that you require in compensation to offset the marginal cost to you of that first inch .
6 I 've loved you from that first day . "
7 ‘ Oh , yes , I 've wanted you from that first meeting in France . ’
8 Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory .
9 I learned everything from this first spectacle : I saw how the white ( French ) , superior , plutocratic , civilized world founded its power on the repression of populations who had suddenly become ‘ invisible ’ , like proletarians , immigrant workers , minorities who are not the right ‘ colour ’ .
10 So , if I 've nothing in these first four cells , and something in that one , and something in that one and nothing below .
11 And yet tonight , in the quiet of this room , I find that what really remains with me from this first day 's travel is not Salisbury Cathedral , nor any of the other charming sights of this city , but rather that marvellous view encountered this morning of the rolling English countryside .
12 Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round .
13 All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers .
14 Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment .
15 To feel gratefully to her for those first baths ,
16 Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside .
17 Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times .
18 His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier .
19 Cos I had him , I just , I just had him like that first sixteen points and we could n't play properly cos no one won .
20 This was a Monday night and the early show of a week 's run in a tour which would take her round the Eastern States , and hopefully into New York for the spring of 1913 , that is if audiences took to her in this first week .
21 The leaders of Britain 's main christian churches were there to greet her in this first city church devoted to united worship .
22 Whatever had happened to him on that first night in St Matthew 's vestry had led him , the next day , to change the whole direction of his life .
23 She shook her head in exasperation , remembering his deception and total lack of sympathy , the way he had treated her on that first night , that following morning .
24 Had wanted her since that first day .
25 He emphasized the surname slightly , knowing he was being unfair because they had n't known it during those first days when Bacci had sat by her bedside .
26 Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company .
27 Jesus has brought a unique new way of life into the world ; St John described it in those first verses of his gospel :
28 ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman .
29 " Get 'em over that first month and you 're half way there . "
30 Eddery 's first success was Mrs Hauksbee , but he admitted : ‘ To be honest I do n't remember anything about that first one , but I 've been lucky to ride lots of winners in good races here . ’
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