Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [det] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have finished them off in that first |
| 2 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 3 | Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife , and to the feeling I had then . |
| 4 | I 've had him off with that first foul in the first minute , that he committed , ridiculous |
| 5 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 6 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |