Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [det] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Queen Mother was always my favourite after that first invitation to play before her , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I was a very sickly child , and so my memories of those first years are dark . |
| 3 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 4 | First he had disturbed her senses in that first sweet embrace — and now he was making life difficult by not being there when needed , and appearing so much too late . |
| 5 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 6 | That was a subjective rating of the infants ' responsiveness to their mothers during those first months . |
| 7 | It would n't surprise me to learn that the original Venetian audience ate , drank , gossiped and gambled its way through that first performance . |
| 8 | She carefully concealed her satisfaction at this first use of the word ‘ our ’ . |
| 9 | In his report of this first experiment Dement also reported that his subjects tended to become paranoid while deprived of REM sleep — ascribing sinister motives to the experimenter , and developing all sorts of unreasonable suspicions as well as having some bizarre experiences such as hallucinations ( seeing or hearing things which were not there ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , his treatment of this first book ( and we shall see that it is not very dissimilar from the others ) is a blatant piece of eisogesis — reading into ( as opposed to exegesis , out of ) the text what he wishes to see , or rather plant . |
| 11 | It 's like feeling the car move to your bidding on that first driving lesson — thrilling , potentially dangerous and powerful . |
| 12 | But there is a cutoff point which we know internally , you wo n't get to know , where we know we 've got enough money to cover all of our costs in that first year . |
| 13 | That 's the first , that 's your answer to that first question . |