Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker regularly assigned to the case seemed to call when most of the children were at school , so he was unable to judge their progress at first hand . |
| 2 | BRISTOL ROVERS began their fight for First Division survival yesterday by signing QPR 's Andy Tillson and Gary Waddock for nearly £500,000 . |
| 3 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 4 | By seeing their work at first hand , they 're hoping he 'll be convinced of the need for more officers . |
| 5 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 6 | McCaw last week agreed to pay $1.9bn for Metromedia 's half of the licence , but that deal in turn hinged on whether LIN took up its right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake . |
| 7 | In view of the harsh treatment of the victims of mental illness in hospitals like Bedlam , where members of the public or the acting profession could study their behaviour at first hand , it is not surprising that no striking instances of writers proclaiming themselves mad by writing about their own affliction have come to light in this period . |
| 8 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 9 | In which book of first entry would you enter the following business documents : |
| 10 | Louise , supervisor in the customer service department at International Paints in Canada , and Bob backflipped their way to first prize in a rock , n , roll dance competition in Montreal . |
| 11 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 12 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |
| 13 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 14 | After completing his PhD in ornithology at the University of Moscow in 1966 , he published the Birds of Vietnam , for which he was honoured by his university with first prize for conservation achievement in 1982 . |
| 15 | Later he went up to Oxford , taking his degree with first class honours in History . |
| 16 | Nazarbayev resigned his post as first secretary and thus membership of the CPSU politburo on Aug. 22 . |
| 17 | On March 22 Saddam Hussein promoted Taha Yasin Ramadhan , from his post of First Deputy Prime Minister to Vice-President . |
| 18 | The controversy led to his dismissal as Slovak Prime Minister in April 23 by the Slovak parliament and his replacement by First Deputy Prime Minister Carnogursky , leader of the Christian Democratic Movement [ see p. 38161 ] . |
| 19 | Sir Douglas Lovelock supervises capital assets amounting to roughly £3 billion in his role as first Commissioner and a further £630 million in his capacity as chairman of the CBF . |
| 20 | The baby 's due in August , but the DJ with the most popular radio show in Britain already looks quite at home in his role of first time father-to-be . |
| 21 | You tossed your opponent for first strike , then the loser just stood still like a lemon with his conker dangling from the string . |
| 22 | ‘ What I mean , my girl , is that you swanned in here , full of self-righteous anger because a little carpenter had deigned to clutter your space without first consulting you , and quite frankly I was sick to my back teeth with what I saw . ’ |
| 23 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 24 | When lodging the papers with your application for first registration of title on behalf of a buyer remember that the abstract must be marked as examined , even though it consists of an epitome of title and photo-copies of documents . |
| 25 | We had some two hours sleep that night , then proceeded to align our position before first light . |