Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 2 | The second topic to be considered in this first section is integration . |
| 3 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 4 | An interesting example of the choices made for this first volume is between the two poems to Octavia on the subject of marriage . |
| 5 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 6 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 7 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd thought of that first . ’ |
| 9 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 10 | There are other meanings to be drawn from this first sonnet , of course , but what is clear is that the poetic sequence of Astrophil and Stella may be seen announcing itself as a failure , a success , both , or neither . |
| 11 | All double bed slip pattern are created in the way shown in this first sample , but instead of continually resetting the back bed , we can produce these patterns automatically by using the electronic patterning for the back bed . |
| 12 | Oligo(dT) itself can be used to prime first strand synthesis of cDNA . |
| 13 | Only key stages 1–3 were affected during this first year . |
| 14 | Detailed analysis shows that the clean surface is relaxed relative to the bulk structure and that the oxygen occupies threefold sites in which it is bound to two first , and one second layer tungsten atoms . |
| 15 | The origin of that primitive ‘ desire ’ is in all probability the same as the unknown origin of life , which in this book is relegated to that first pre-life period which made no contribution to the Created God except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 16 | This was grievous enough , but there was worse : the confidence and coherence of the Austrian Army had been broken in these first weeks of the war , and it was never again to comprise an efficient military weapon . |
| 17 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 18 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 19 | England international Richard Knight has teamed up again with Berwick on their return to the Second Division after being linked with leading First Division teams . |
| 20 | Hopefully , you 've brought along some first aid remedies in your kit bag to deal with blisters , cuts or rubbed areas . |
| 21 | Eventually the experience might have to be repeated , in her own defence , but she could not hope to find much more in it than she had found in this first venture . |
| 22 | Rates of remaining a never smoker in 1989 for the 2981 ( 98% ) for whom smoking status was known at this first follow up were 85% in the control group , 82% in the FSE group , 81% in the SAM group , and 84% in the FSE/SAM group . |
| 23 | The total accommodation on these trains was therefore limited to eighty-two first and one hundred and fifty third class passengers . |
| 24 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gaidar had served as joint First Deputy Prime Minister since May , having formerly been Finance Minister . |
| 27 | In all , of the 350 commitments in the original White Paper , more than 200 have already been fulfilled in this first year alone and significant progress has been made with the remainder . |
| 28 | 3 Native versus non-native bilingualism — that is , where there are two first languages ( mother tongues ) as opposed to one first language and one second language acquired appreciably later . |
| 29 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 30 | I hope you will find it a balance of traditional and modern Medau work combined with some first class guest lectures . |