Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 2 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 4 | Yeah I know I watch the first one video fucked up . |
| 5 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 6 | When I read the first six words of that I thought , good Lord , we 're going to get a bit of policy here and but no , no , none of it . |
| 7 | No that 's a lie , I enjoyed the first 15 miles . |
| 8 | Roe , already third , fourth and fifth in European tour events this year , said : ‘ I birdied the first three holes to give myself a flying start and never really looked back . ’ |
| 9 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 10 | ‘ I spent the first nineteen years of my life in England . |
| 11 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 12 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 13 | I , I watched the first ten minutes which was really funny cos as they 're going along in the truck ah look at that woman ! |
| 14 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 15 | For it was then that I felt the first healthy flush of anticipation for the many interesting experiences I know these days ahead hold in store for me . |
| 16 | By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle . |
| 17 | ‘ I brought the first sixty pages of Fallen Angel . ’ |
| 18 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 19 | I sang the first sixteen bars in a soft velvet voice , standing perfectly still and letting the sad lyrics speak for themselves . |
| 20 | I attended the first two or three , before my legs started to trouble me . ’ |
| 21 | I think the first two though , the on the job obviously |
| 22 | I think the first two are pretty much certain and i 've a feeling he would accept it if he was given the nod . |
| 23 | That er , er , little action has been taken in the last thirty forty years since this has been being discussed , erm , I think the first international conference erm , produced their own report in nineteen sixty . |
| 24 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 25 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |
| 26 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 27 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 28 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 29 | So I missed the first two minutes of Jazz Record Requests on Radio 3 . ’ |
| 30 | She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face . |