Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he waited , he could n't help thinking about that first night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During that first weekend Prince Charles showed Diana around Highgrove , the 353-acre Gloucestershire home he had bought in July the same month he had started to woo her . |
| 4 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 5 | Many evacuees went home during that first winter , but when the blitz began , there was another exodus from London . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 8 | Everything that happened to Millie during that first week in the House of Christ the Saviour she objected to . |
| 9 | This I was to learn later , too late to recapture a heart irretrievably lost during that first week . |
| 10 | So doubtful was Maxine about her ability to contribute to the treatment in general , and about the strength of her visual imagination in particular , that we decided between us to do no more than practise relaxation and visualization techniques during that first visit . |
| 11 | They 're desperate for that first drink . |
| 12 | They 're desperate for that first drink . |
| 13 | I had made no arrangements for that first night . |
| 14 | He never put in an appearance until early evening and , except for that first night , he had not even been home for dinner . |
| 15 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 16 | By keeping the lower vee steeper than the other , we introduce what might be called a ‘ tail-effect ’ , so keep this in mind when you are practising for that first Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , this is probably the best way to go for that first circuit whether or not you have any previous model flying experience . |
| 18 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now we 're ready for that first flight . |
| 21 | You see , they might have enough for that first barrel load of bricks , and the first bag of cement and sand but perhaps the money will run out shortly after that ? |
| 22 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 23 | For that first period , Mr claims a sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and five pounds worked out on an hourly basis . |
| 24 | yeah but I think it was only one and one of those two , I , I 'd picked the white up because there was n't any black , for that first time |
| 25 | It would n't surprise me to learn that the original Venetian audience ate , drank , gossiped and gambled its way through that first performance . |
| 26 | In the gap between that first Hayward retrospective and the current show of paintings from the last decade , Riley has had significant exhibitions in many countries , including two major touring shows . |
| 27 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 28 | The significant point about this first view is that whichever label is used the expansion in procedural rights is not regarded as involving any fundamental change in the nature of natural justice . |
| 29 | He finished three lengths behind Monday 's Welsh National winner Run For Free first time out at Haydock when conceding five pounds , and was six lengths in front of The Fellow in the Hennessy , receiving 25lb from the subsequent King George winner . |
| 30 | During this first imprisonment , which lasted from 1660 to 1672 , Bunyan published Grace Abounding , which was based on sermons given by him in prison . |