Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [det] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 2 | The Marxist definition of class in terms of private ownership of the means of production used to work well for most First World societies , but it always left much to be desired in the analysis of the Second and Third Worlds where the larger part of the means of production are owned and controlled not by private capitalists but by state or parastatal enterprises . |
| 3 | The cuvée is the highest quality juice and many Champagnes are made entirely from this first pressing . |
| 4 | In later years , we shall find Nietzsche looking back at this first book , and especially its Wagnerian dimension , with very mixed feelings . |
| 5 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 6 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 7 | Lots of pupils give up at this first hurdle . |
| 8 | Going back to those first commands and prohibitions on which ( among other things ) conscience is founded , it is apparent that some babies heed them more readily and consistently than others , and that some parents convey them more effectively than others . |
| 9 | That 's where you graduated from the junior class as a boy , you 'd move up to that first class on this er this long corridor . |
| 10 | He walks round the streets he walked round on that first morning . |
| 11 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 12 | The disadvantage of this is that the horse misses out on that first year of becoming accustomed to life and its excitements . |
| 13 | Many evacuees went home during that first winter , but when the blitz began , there was another exodus from London . |
| 14 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 15 | If we go back to that first , second slide , if you 're still alive in thirty years time , you may actually want the money that you 've gifted to people ten years ago , and erm that 's the problem you 've got . |
| 16 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 17 | ‘ They corresponded regularly after that first meeting . |
| 18 | See inside for another first from Oxford ! |
| 19 | My mind travelled back to that first occasion . |