Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 3 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 4 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 5 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 6 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 7 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 8 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 9 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 12 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
| 13 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 14 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 15 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 18 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 19 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 20 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 21 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 22 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 23 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 24 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 25 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 26 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 27 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 28 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 29 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 30 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |