Example sentences of "[pron] from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 2 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 5 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 6 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 8 | You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four |
| 9 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 10 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 12 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 13 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 14 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 15 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 16 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |
| 17 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 18 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 19 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 20 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 21 | I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute . |
| 22 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 23 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 24 | They lie proximal to the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 25 | The adoral shields are large and are restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 26 | The adoral shields are short , slightly curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 27 | The adoral shields are slightly convex occupy a large portion of the jaw proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | The adoral shields are curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are large , not particularly wing-like , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are convex , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |