Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 2 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 3 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 4 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 5 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 6 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 7 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 8 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 9 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 11 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 12 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 13 | Arnold Palmer , Gary Player , George Archer and Jack Nicklaus are the only golfers ever to have won on their first appearance in a US Senior Tour event . |
| 14 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 15 | Breakfast included on your first morning . |
| 16 | Remember that afterwards you may be making an offer , so a more careful visual inspection must be made at this stage , and the matters only briefly considered on your first visit should be looked at in more depth now . |
| 17 | We have already come across our first clue as to why species become extinct , and many others will emerge as the evolutionary story unfolds ; all of the solar planets were formed by catastrophic processes . |
| 18 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 19 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 20 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 21 | The 12th People 's Great Hural , members of which had been elected in the country 's first multiparty elections held in July [ see p. 37656 ] , met for its first session on Sept. 3-11 . |
| 22 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 23 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 24 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 25 | ( The expression ‘ full moon ’ means the fourteenth day of the moon reckoned from its first appearance . ) |
| 26 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 27 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 28 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , ‘ it is hard to be separated from your first child . |
| 29 | Let me ask er let me ask Robert over here now Robert , er I see here it tells me that you were separated from Alison , Alison your first wife , er let me get this microphone right , you were separated from your first wife , this is your second wife , you were separated from your first wife er and I understand it was a clean break , it was a clean break with a court settlement ? |
| 30 | Let me ask er let me ask Robert over here now Robert , er I see here it tells me that you were separated from Alison , Alison your first wife , er let me get this microphone right , you were separated from your first wife , this is your second wife , you were separated from your first wife er and I understand it was a clean break , it was a clean break with a court settlement ? |