Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only get the first two options — everything else disappears off the bottom of the screen and reappears at the top , corrupted and unaffected by the mouse , even though CGA appears to be supported . |
| 2 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 3 | I only had the first one to worry about . |
| 4 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 5 | ‘ I only read the first one . |
| 6 | ‘ I would write about forty , and he said to me once : ‘ I always skip the first twenty because they 're not very good ! ’ ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I still remember the first name you told me . ’ |
| 8 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 9 | I double take the first glimpse |
| 10 | I dimly recall the first broadcast performance of this piece in the 1940s and rarely lose an opportunity of hearing any new recording of it . |
| 11 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 12 | I well remember the first one to be accepted , ‘ ’ Firmly I believe and truly ’ , which was sung for the first time at the dedication of Holy Cross College . |
| 13 | I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives . |
| 14 | I therefore move the first special resolution . |
| 15 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 16 | I never forget the first morsel of professional advice I received : ‘ Play your own game , son , but keep the ball moving . ’ |
| 17 | Some longer than others , I never forget the first day in Liverpool , I was a |
| 18 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 19 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 20 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 21 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's unannounced System V.4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 22 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Lab 's unannounced SVR4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Labs . |
| 23 | It was Switchboard volunteers who eventually organized the first London public conference on AIDS . |
| 24 | Transfer to the BA Hons Irish Studies is possible for students who successfully complete the first year of the Diploma of Higher Education in Irish Studies ( see page 151 ) . |
| 25 | But you always remember the first time . |
| 26 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 27 | The fans had come for goals and it was Pompey who nearly supplied the first . |
| 28 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 29 | It was this second man who now asked the first , the last , question . |
| 30 | This was why she initially opposed the first march from Coalisland to Dungannon , but the arguments of the Nationalists and the Republicans on direct action tactics had become dominant and she was outvoted . |