Example sentences of "[pron] that the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was his St Martin 's summer , an autumnal madness , nothing that the first cold of winter could n't wither . |
| 2 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 3 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’ |
| 5 | Any handbook on assertiveness techniques will tell you that the first rule is to make eye contact with your interviewers . |
| 6 | Watch out for log books which tell you that the first owner was Engineering Educational Trust . |
| 7 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 8 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 9 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 10 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 11 | Tradition has it that the first fenoderee was actually a handsome prince from the proud fairy tribe of the Ferrishyn . |
| 12 | Popular mythology among mothers has it that the first child is always the most ‘ difficult ’ , and it is easy to see why this should be so . |
| 13 | It took a little bit of deft footwork to satisfy themselves that the first firm would not object to Rank using ‘ Carry On ’ in the title . |
| 14 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 15 | The readings tell us that the first communities of Christians were united heart and soul in the Lord . |