Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 3 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 4 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | I hated it the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 9 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 10 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 11 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 12 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 13 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 14 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 15 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 16 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 17 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 18 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 19 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 20 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 21 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 22 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 23 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 24 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |