Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 2 | Er , on the first day that I joined this Council which was the first day that you joined er Councillor . |
| 3 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 4 | Ladybirds have done well out of the exceptional summer , as have sweet chestnut trees ; this is the first year that I can recall collecting chestnuts locally that are large enough to eat . |
| 5 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |
| 6 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 7 | The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn . |
| 8 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 9 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 10 | It is not the first occasion that I have had to accept the disappointment of missing an international . |
| 11 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 12 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 13 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 14 | Erm , the conditions were erm slightly different on the second floor , in the sense that there were a few , few people and a few items of equipment erm , and there is a relatively great density of staff on the first floor than I would have found . |
| 15 | So that 's the first consideration when I 'm looking at somebody 's investments , how do they view their own investment strategy ? |
| 16 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 17 | He spells out the first name and I 'm thinking Jemayl/Jemmel , uh-huh . |
| 18 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 19 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |
| 20 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 21 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 22 | ‘ Our brief has always been to get back to our home ground and stay in the First Division and I think we are capable of achieving both . ’ |
| 23 | We need to fight drug addiction in the first instance and I do n't want to give people the paraphernalia to continue using drugs . ’ |
| 24 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 25 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 26 | The first benefit that I believe we have gained is a better ability to define what are and are not suitable tasks for the application of AI , in particular expert systems . |
| 27 | The first misunderstanding that I should like to clear up is the assertion that the Government have chosen King 's Cross as the terminal for the channel tunnel link and that Stratford will be merely a station along the route . |
| 28 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 29 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 30 | You could come down on the the first half and I can jump and that 's like Wrestle Mania . |