Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 3 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 4 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 5 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 6 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 7 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 8 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 9 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 10 | Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches . |
| 11 | Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over . |
| 12 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 13 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 14 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 15 | In 1896 the fourth Congress resolved itself into the first National Council with a permanent staff and offices , at first in Birmingham and then in the Congregationalists ' London headquarters , Memorial Hall . |
| 16 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 17 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 18 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 19 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |
| 20 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 21 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 22 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 23 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 24 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
| 26 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 27 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 28 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 29 | When Elizabeth 's mother and sister had gone to Leeds , Elizabeth and George had the house to themselves for the first time since the early days of their marriage . |
| 30 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |