Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah I know I watch the first one video fucked up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think the first two though , the on the job obviously |
| 5 | I think the first two are pretty much certain and i 've a feeling he would accept it if he was given the nod . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 10 | Can you us a bit more explanation as to why you say the first three sectors are better than the last three , |
| 11 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 12 | But if you overwrite the first twenty factory patches , there 's a procedure allowing you to call them up again anyway ( as per most digital devices ) , so all 's not lost . |
| 13 | Yeah , and that wa , she said well it 's an insurance job she said well it do n't matter , you stand the first hundred pound and then erm then the VAT so she said I dread to think what the price of the job were on the insurance ! |
| 14 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 15 | Florence C commands both saw and herself because if you go up the tree from Florence you find the first branching node , that 's the S node and that dominates both saw and herself . |
| 16 | We report the first successful treatment with recombinant tPA ( rtPA ) in a 4-year-old girl with HUS . |
| 17 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 18 | We give the first two bars of the passage , which continues in an exactly similar manner for twelve more bars or so . |
| 19 | In these societies the beginnings of weaning and disciplined child-rearing can be seen , and it is significant that , associated with the seasonal hunters of the Palaeolithic period in Europe and elsewhere , we find the first female figurines . |
| 20 | ‘ Improv is what we call the first dynamic spreadsheet for Windows . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple . |
| 23 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 24 | ‘ Well it 's obvious why they want the first two — so they can use it as gas on the Front and turn the whole of Europe into zombies . ’ |
| 25 | At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All SWIFTAIR items receive priority handling and separate sorting so that they meet the first available flight to the country of destination . |
| 28 | To cross this frontier , they like the first terrestrial invertebrates had to solve two problems : first , how to move around out of water , and second , how to obtain oxygen from the air . |
| 29 | They approach the first rocky hill and pause . |
| 30 | To judge from Timothy Day 's useful Discography of Tudor church music ( London , 1989 ) , they mark the first serious attempt to capture on record a representative sample of Byrd 's music . |