Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 2 | See inside for another first from Oxford ! |
| 3 | In between these first ventures into showbusiness , the young hopeful was performing in a different way for audiences on the streets of South London , where he gained a reputation as the ‘ best egg-seller in Brixton ’ . |
| 4 | You 're so near that first garment |
| 5 | The cuvée is the highest quality juice and many Champagnes are made entirely from this first pressing . |
| 6 | They , too , felt the almost physical barrier of a partisan crowd at Ibrox especially in that first half period when they lost two goals . |
| 7 | So in that first year , at ten percent , you 'd be given a capital allowance of five hundred pounds , to be set against a profit of four hundred pounds . |
| 8 | ( You 'll need to jot things down in rough first , before you enter totals on the slip . ) |
| 9 | Beatrice had a wonderfully fluent French-flavoured pen and captured the frenetic quality of their life together in those first few months of the war . |
| 10 | ‘ And that was all on that first occasion ? ’ |
| 11 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 12 | He had died , thankfully — Parker had almost clapped his hands — shortly after that first black eye . |
| 13 | Then , without the slightest warning , just like that first time so many months before , Karen jumped me . |
| 14 | We float down to the beach by Old Steine , just like that first night . |
| 15 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 16 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 17 | But Alina hardly talked about herself at all , not at this first meeting . |
| 18 | Many evacuees went home during that first winter , but when the blitz began , there was another exodus from London . |
| 19 | I 've had him off with that first foul in the first minute , that he committed , ridiculous |
| 20 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 21 | Should have finished them off in that first |
| 22 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 23 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't remember anything clearly after that first dance , ’ she said . |
| 25 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 26 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 27 | That 's where you graduated from the junior class as a boy , you 'd move up to that first class on this er this long corridor . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought about it and it does go back to those very early days and probably to that first meeting , ’ she says . |
| 29 | Lots of pupils give up at this first hurdle . |
| 30 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |