Example sentences of "to [pron] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 2 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 3 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 4 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 5 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
| 6 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 7 | Akram then edged just short of slip , and clearly a stiff examination was being set out there by Malcolm , to whom the first comeback wicket had been ‘ like a drink of water to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 8 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 9 | The extent to which the first proposition is true could only be determined by interviewing all of the successful Ph D students , and all of their supervisors , and attempting to reconcile two , possibly conflicting , sets of answers . |
| 10 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 11 | Alternatively , there can be a conveyance between the husband and the wife to which the first mortgagee is a party ( as above ) and a deed of covenant from the wife in favour of the second mortgagee to observe and perform the terms of the second mortgage , containing an indemnity in favour of the husband in respect thereof . |
| 12 | The target words occurred in sentences with two clauses , but the clauses varied in the extent to which the first clause could be fully interpreted without information from the second clause . |
| 13 | copy to you the first time |
| 14 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 15 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 16 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 17 | I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness . |
| 18 | Is n't talking to yourself the first sign ? |