Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] first [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
2 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
3 | Most men agreed that the most satisfying fantasy occurs before they first go to bed with a new partner — when having sex is a fantasy that' almost bound to come true . |
4 | She says when they first moved up there was an old stone sink and a cold water tap ; no hot water and since then the council has put in a new sink with hot and cold running water . |
5 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
6 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |
7 | All this assumes , of course , that the doctor 's duty demands that he first satisfy himself that the patient is capable of making a rational decision . |
8 | It seems when you first had |
9 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
10 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
11 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
12 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
13 | After everybody drinks when they first come in yeah ? |
14 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
15 | He suggests that we first obtain estimates of α and β , say and , from an ordinary least-squares regression of equation ( 3.49a ) . |
16 | The reward comes when you first survive a stronger puff without falling . |