Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 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 .
4 And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art .
5 He sipped from the first glass .
6 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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