Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
2 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
3 | But it is with inversion that we find the first really unfamiliar transformation . |
4 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
5 | Still to come : a full round up of the day 's news from the City , and we preview the first of the season 's major snooker tournaments . |
6 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
7 | I Chairman on that decision and we re-take the first vote on amendment nine . |
8 | The effect held up ( although this time it was somewhat smaller ) , and we published the first paper describing the results in 1980 . |
9 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
10 | until we got the first order . |
11 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
12 | Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal . |
13 | Good so if we cut the first into twelfth what how many pieces would they get out of that 's be twelve pieces altogether okay . |
14 | If we take the first sentence of extract ( I ) as S , and present it below as ( 2a ) , we can also present the negation of S , as ( 2b ) , and the logical presupposition , S' , as ( 2c ) . |
15 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
16 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
17 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
18 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
19 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
20 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
21 | when we bought them , when we had the first lot of springs |
22 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
23 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
24 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |