Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] the first " in BNC.
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1 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
2 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
3 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
4 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
5 | copy to you the first time |
6 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
7 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
8 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
9 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
10 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |