Example sentences of "[pron] be the first thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks for a great mag , which is the first thing I grab on my trips home , being a subscriber ! |
| 2 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 3 | It 's the first thing I learnt about traditional Chinese stir frying and it 's the most important clue to the whole principle of the Wok — things happen fast . |
| 4 | It 's the first thing I look at when I wake up , the last thing at night . |
| 5 | It 's the first thing we see ; it is , if you like , the moment at which Dr Starkie introduces us to Flaubert . |
| 6 | Sorry if it 's the first thing you see in the morning , still it 's not everyone who can say they 've been sleeping with a Jesuit . |
| 7 | It 's the first thing you got with it , you get a phone call , do me alright . |
| 8 | This definition of metre takes getting used to : in music the idea that one note can realise several beats is obvious — it 's the first thing anybody learns ; but the idea that in poetry one syllable may do so is far less familiar . |
| 9 | tragic that 's a good word to start from it 's the first thing they 're gon na look at after the headline so it 's pretty important that that the first word , I think looting was an excellent choice here . |
| 10 | Well it 's the first thing that comes . |
| 11 | Right , let's , this is hypothetical so it is it 's the first thing that comes to my head but it may I would n't take it as s take groups , for example , you just got the handout on groups and you get a question coming up that might say erm , I do n't know , how could groups how could a w what does our understanding of groups owe to speech therapy ? |
| 12 | it 's the first thing kids do , draw , when |
| 13 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 14 | It 's the first thing |
| 15 | You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey |
| 16 | Osmone ( to give it its official name ) soothes because it is the first thing a newborn baby smells , he says . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the first thing you wanted to do , ’ she says . |
| 18 | ‘ … a burst of cannon shell in the cockpit : it was the first thing I knew … ’ |
| 19 | Mel Smith has been on the opening show of two series so far , and it was the first thing he mentioned . |
| 20 | And of course it was the first thing Hepzibah said , turning pink and steamy from the stove and smiling as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Carrie and Nick should appear in her kitchen at precisely this minute . |
| 21 | It was the first thing he 'd said , all afternoon . |
| 22 | It was the first thing he 'd said the whole twenty miles . |
| 23 | Rostov had chosen the speech simply because it was the first thing which came to mind . |
| 24 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 25 | It was the first thing we had … |
| 26 | One is illustrated by the fact that the blacks call their church first purchase , this is because it was the first thing that their community bought when they were all released from slavery , another form of racial prejudice on behalf of the whites . |
| 27 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 28 | It was the first thing I asked . ’ |
| 29 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 30 | ‘ It was the first thing that came into my head . |