Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] from the first " in BNC.

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1 I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’
2 The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day .
3 His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him .
4 Language is , as we see from the first example , an enjoyment that begins before speech ( perhaps before birth ) with rhythms and sounds .
5 It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life .
6 It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 .
7 And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art .
8 He sipped from the first glass .
9 Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories .
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