Example sentences of "[adv] [art] first [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 2 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 3 | At first , this made Lucien nervous , especially the first time he came across a half-clad female sauntering along the sky-lit corridor outside his room on her way to the bathrooms . |
| 4 | He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 6 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son |
| 8 | He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere . |
| 9 | Perhaps the first thing we can note about all three departments is the formality of the relationship between students and staff : a formality which is reflected in the teaching methods . |
| 10 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 11 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 12 | Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road . |
| 13 | So the first thing we do is to change hands , that 's good , push , wait change sides , straighten up the tiller , look where you 're going that 's fine . |
| 14 | So the first thing we do is to change hands , then push , wait until the boom comes across and change sides and straighten up . |
| 15 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |
| 16 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 17 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 18 | So the first thing you 're always gon na think about is position . |
| 19 | So the first thing you do is turn off your gas . |
| 20 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Right so the first thing you do if we 're dealing with a hundred and fifty . |
| 23 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 24 | So the first thing I said was , ‘ You do n't have to talk to me . |
| 25 | So the first thing I did was distil it down to seven pages of figures accompanied by seven pages of narrative , designed to make sure that the board was properly informed . |
| 26 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 27 | So the first gig you attended was one that you were taking part in ? |
| 28 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 29 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 30 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |