Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For God 's sake , ’ Bowie 's Pilate bristled on that first Good Friday , ‘ I could have you crucified . ’ |
| 2 | The time devoted to this first rehearsal depends on the budget allowed for the show , with Musicians ' Union rates prevailing . |
| 3 | ‘ We were rather brusque and offhand with her when she came in that first time , ’ Waterman remembered . |
| 4 | This chapter concentrates on the feedback which BRAC received concerning this first phase . |
| 5 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 6 | I returned from that first Manhattan holiday aglow with the pleasure of new friends acquired in New York 's radio circles , and , of course , a large autographed photo of Jessica for Fred Workman . |
| 7 | , Frederick Winston Furneaux , second Earl of Birkenhead ( 1907–1975 ) , biographer , was born 7 December 1907 at 70 Eccleston Square , London , the only son and second of three children of Frederick Edwin Smith [ q.v. ] , known always as ‘ FE ’ , who became in 1922 first Earl of Birkenhead , and his wife Margaret Eleanor , second daughter of the Revd Henry Furneaux , fellow of Corpus Christi College , Oxford . |
| 8 | In 1987 , I founded by prestigious First Turkey of the Christmas Season award and gave it to the British banker who had lent ( and lost ) £500,000 to a penniless student for him to play stock market futures . |
| 9 | His head turned to me , just the way Mrs Quigley 's had done when she passed on that first message from my dad . |
| 10 | He made over fifty first ascents of peaks between the Jotunheim and the North Cape . |
| 11 | " No , Ma , I looked for that first . " |
| 12 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |
| 13 | She thought of that first lunchtime , when Roman had appeared on her mother 's terrace with Stephanie at his side . |
| 14 | He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet . |
| 15 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 16 | Remember how it looked on that first X-ray ? ’ |
| 17 | For a second Yanto remained rooted to the spot ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he gasped From that first moonlit glimpse he knew he had a specimen here . |
| 18 | All others , in Europe and the rest of the world , reacted to this first step — national liberation became defensive , reactive . |
| 19 | And of course DaSilva erm , not flashing those strokes round like he did on that first innings er , playing a very sensible innings from the point of view of Sri Lanka , but his erm , have n't seen many of his flashing strokes . |
| 20 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 21 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |