Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 2 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 3 | I knew that the first step was to introduce Barny to jesses . |
| 4 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 5 | I knew that the first time she mentioned it . |
| 6 | I did that the first excuse and Lee , yeah , yeah office ! |
| 7 | ‘ I cried when the first grenades fell and destroyed our home . |
| 8 | For a moment I wondered whether the First Spiritualists are any crazier than other people . |
| 9 | In a famous library somebody found that the first two volumes had vanished . |
| 10 | There were a number of errors in the raw data which meant that the first attempt to convert it into system files failed . |
| 11 | So far as the latter are concerned it is evident that the movements aiming at national unification or national independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have arisen in circumstances very different from those which prevailed when the first nation states were created . |
| 12 | She announced that the first meeting of the Friends will be held on 13th November ( further details in the Calendar ) , and she stressed that all members of staff will be particularly welcome at all Friends meetings . |
| 13 | When her first attempt to sustain a local nursing service failed , she decided that the first essential was a national organization to provide loans , train nurses , and monitor standards . |
| 14 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 15 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 16 | Eastwood played a Secret Service agent , Frank Horrigan , who froze when the first shot was fired that day in Texas and blamed himself for JFK 's death . |
| 17 | We noticed that the first speaker , Susan did not use the JC vowel in STRUT words [ P3 ] . |
| 18 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 19 | We saw that the first , and most important , of these traumatic social changes was the transition from vegetarian foraging to big-game hunting which precipitated the murder of the primal father , and that subsequent totemic culture , still extant until recently in some parts of the world , was a consequence of this . |
| 20 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 21 | On investigation , they discovered that the first agency had failed to get proper authorisation from Visa for the transaction . |
| 22 | In pursuance of this last , they waited until the first yells and screams sounded from the unhappy village , followed quickly by the glow of fire . |
| 23 | After the battering the team had taken in Australia , he realized that the first job was to restore morale , and he did manage to instil some of his own determination into his players . |
| 24 | It will be recalled that Thales , the first Greek philosopher , was Ionian , and he maintained that the first principle ( arche ) of all things is water . |
| 25 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 26 | Though sites around the Scottish coast could be used for any plans by oil companies to adopt the technique for UK waters , he predicted that the first deep-water application of the method would be in the Norwegian sector and Brazilian waters . |
| 27 | and he saw that the first flame |
| 28 | He postulated that the first step in the differentiation was our ancestors ' adoption of an upright posture in order to move about on open plains instead of in trees . |
| 29 | Instead , he waited until the first fierce flood of tears had passed , then loosened his grip on her a little . |
| 30 | This recommendation was in apparent contradiction to an interview given by Saddam Hussein broadcast on French television on July 9 , in which he stated that he hoped that the first free and democratic presidential elections in the country 's history would take place later in the year and that he would stand for re-election alongside other candidates . |