Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 2 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 3 | Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work . |
| 4 | And of course er I knew something about America , my mother had been there and er we had some c I had eighteen first cousins in America when I went there . |
| 5 | Arriving at Preston , I had another first , riding in a motor taxi to St. Paul 's Road , our destination . |
| 6 | I was surprised to learn that my claim could not be backdated , but I wrote those first three weeks ' money off to inexperience . |
| 7 | Part-time courses , which included 228 first degree courses , also recruited well and the first year intake showed an increase of 11 per cent . |
| 8 | You got any first class stamps anywhere ? |
| 9 | She tried these first . |
| 10 | But last week the Conservative candidate in Belfast 's Victoria Ward Jim McCormick — who polled 684 first preference votes — backed our story to the hilt . |
| 11 | So she called this first rhino Godot . |
| 12 | She was desperate for more of him ; her body ached for fulfilment , for the feel of his need and strength inside — so that when he entered her , when she felt that first wondrous thrust , which brought both pleasure and pain , it was as she 'd always dreamed , and as his urgent rhythm continued , bringing them both to that glorious peak of exhilaration , Robyn cried out his name , held him close to her for a moment and wished things could be like this forever . |
| 13 | Mind you , I think she were a bit frugal with truth when she said that first lad she 'd gone with and she got pregnant . |
| 14 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 15 | He was born sixteen years ago , and we realised that first winter that there was something wrong . |
| 16 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 17 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 18 | We wanted this first tour to give some feeling to the kids . ’ |
| 19 | We sat that first evening on two carpenter 's benches — we did n't even have proper tables and chairs — and started mixing the album . |
| 20 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 21 | They spent that first night of their return to public life just standing close together in silence , like they were a couple of lovers ; but they were n't , of course , not yet . |
| 22 | They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them . |
| 23 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 24 | So he made these first three senior commissioning editor appointments , effectively heads of big departments , appointing two women and one man . |
| 25 | Newcomen must have done various experiments before he erected this first commercially successful engine , but we have no record of these . |
| 26 | Patrick , who read Greats at Oxford , felt it was time the mould was broken , but says he was astonished when , after graduating , he came equal first in the Foreign Office exam . |
| 27 | The former left-arm paceman from Northallerton was renewing memories at Acklam Park of his years with Yorkshire from 1971 to 1977 when he captured 196 first class wickets at an average of 25.13 runs apiece . |
| 28 | Garvey fixes them — like he did that first time in Horsey , when he paid that waster to act blind . ’ |
| 29 | and we 'd go off to Felixstowe or somewhere but you see we still went away because he had four first class passes a year |
| 30 | Cos when he had that first kid , you know , when he moved here and I were asking be nice if you 'd had a a girl . |