Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 2 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 3 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 4 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 5 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 6 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 7 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 8 | In that case , erm , Niall would you read out the first er paragraph there . |
| 9 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 10 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 11 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 12 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 13 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 14 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 15 | She held out the first page of the manuscript file for him to read . |
| 16 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 17 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 18 | Overall , however , the expedition was a great success : ‘ Most of our aims were achieved , as — among other objectives — we confirmed the presence of five threatened species of mammal , we carried out the first study of bats in the area , and we gathered valuable information on the flora of the area , including the discovery of a new species , ’ she continued . |
| 19 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 20 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 21 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 22 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 23 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 24 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 25 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 26 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 29 | He brought out the first published Ordnance Survey map , An Entirely New & Accurate Survey of the County of Kent ( 1801 ) . |
| 30 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |