Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would have dreamed she would be so fiery the first time ? |
| 2 | Continuation of inflation at this kind of rate would cause the whole problem to recur in that the value of gold stocks , at the new fixed price , would be regarded as insufficient in relation to the rising value of trade , and speculation on a further gold price rise , against the dollar , would redouble ( as it would have been proved so profitable the first time ) . |
| 3 | Almost a century later there were five thousand Salvationists in sixty five centres , still battling against the poverty and disease which had so concerned the first arrivals . |
| 4 | She was so startled the first time that she said to it : ‘ How nice to see you , my lord . ’ |
| 5 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 6 | James Boswell in the eighteenth century was generally impotent the first time he slept with women of his own class , though in sex with lower-class girls he could easily prove his manhood . |
| 7 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 8 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 9 | Just about all the first team squad on call for tomorrow … two problems facing the new manager Les Robinson is doubtful with a back injury … and skipper Jim Magilton is fighting for fitness after taking a knock in the Ireland game |
| 10 | It 's surprisingly playable the first time around … |
| 11 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 12 | They 're at least seventeen , not over twenty the first figure skater . |
| 13 | This is used mainly where tantrums are severe and where it is felt that stopping them altogether is too big a first step . |
| 14 | We revisited some of our old haunts like Butterfly Creek , and old friends like the Lawrences whose house is approached by their own private cable car ( very scary the first time you ride it ) . |