Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 3 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 4 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 5 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 6 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 7 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 8 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 9 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 10 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 13 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 14 | I did everything right in the first set . |
| 15 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
| 16 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 17 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 18 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 21 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 22 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 23 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 24 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 25 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 26 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 27 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 28 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 29 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 30 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |