Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 2 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 3 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 4 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 5 | I had n't the first idea what she meant . |
| 6 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
| 7 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 8 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 9 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 10 | In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets . |
| 11 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 12 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 13 | The Burnham Committee , which had since the First World War been responsible for determining the salaries of teachers , now produced a unified scheme , making no formal distinction between the remuneration of teachers in Primary , secondary modern , or grammar schools . |
| 14 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 15 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 16 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 17 | Strachan who played only the first half engineered Leeds ' first goal with a 29th min cross for Noel Whelan to head in at the near post . |
| 18 | Bodley 's view about the literary insignificance of English drama was formally challenged by Ben Jonson who published plays in the Folio edition of his Workes in 1616 and later , and in response to Jonson 's success , by Shakespeare 's first editors , Heminge and Condell , who brought out the First Folio of Shakespeare 's plays in 1623 ( eight years after Shakespeare died ) . |
| 19 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 20 | The surgeons in Utah who carried out the first artificial heart operation are still waiting to see how their patient manages before carrying out any more operations . |
| 21 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 22 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 23 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 24 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 25 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 26 | She held out the first page of the manuscript file for him to read . |
| 27 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 28 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 29 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 30 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |