Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 2 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 3 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 4 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 5 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 6 | And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 . |
| 7 | D' you remember the first time ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels . |
| 9 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 10 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 11 | Let him make the first move . |
| 12 | Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second . |
| 13 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 14 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 15 | Let us examine the first two phases . |
| 16 | Let us explore the first of these words — ‘ encounter ’ . |
| 17 | I I do n't think you need the first |
| 18 | To help you to take the first important steps , we have produced the Barclays Small Business Pack . |
| 19 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 20 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 21 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 22 | The Council wants to make out that you 've got to let them have the first option |
| 23 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah I know I watch the first one video fucked up . |
| 25 | I do n't er I know you have n't got another one , I remember you emptying the first bag . |
| 26 | When you feel you have the first mode together , move on to the second and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's hard to believe we cut the first sod here only 15 months ago , ’ smiles John , who naturally did n't go into a project like this blind-folded . |
| 28 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 29 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 30 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |