Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 2 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 3 | Most men agreed that the most satisfying fantasy occurs before they first go to bed with a new partner — when having sex is a fantasy that' almost bound to come true . |
| 4 | She says when they first moved up there was an old stone sink and a cold water tap ; no hot water and since then the council has put in a new sink with hot and cold running water . |
| 5 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 6 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |
| 7 | All this assumes , of course , that the doctor 's duty demands that he first satisfy himself that the patient is capable of making a rational decision . |
| 8 | It seems when you first had |
| 9 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
| 10 | My hair jumps as I first |
| 11 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
| 12 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 13 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 14 | After everybody drinks when they first come in yeah ? |
| 15 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
| 16 | Let us suppose the client suggests that they first wish to overcome their difficulties in using public transport , specifically buses . |
| 17 | He suggests that we first obtain estimates of α and β , say and , from an ordinary least-squares regression of equation ( 3.49a ) . |
| 18 | The reward comes when you first survive a stronger puff without falling . |