Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 2 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 3 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 4 | ‘ Being very lazy by nature , I enjoy making the first sketches , but the practical precision , the mathematical measuring necessary to carry out the design and the extreme neatness required , both of which I am very bad at , I find irksome . |
| 5 | I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it . |
| 6 | ‘ I do like the first Suede single , and I love the second Ride album . |
| 7 | I 've done the first bit for you . |
| 8 | that 's that for when I 've done the first ten tapes . |
| 9 | I 've done the first |
| 10 | ‘ So I 've passed the first hurdle , ’ she breathed . |
| 11 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 12 | I 've had the first signs of her asking where I go , what I do . |
| 13 | I 've had the first one |
| 14 | But I 've put the first hot foments on the two affected parts , ’ I explained . |
| 15 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got the first demand from the schoolteacher , boss . |
| 17 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
| 18 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 19 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 20 | I 've got the first batch came back this morning , so now I , I 've actually got the examples I can do it , it 's not , no problem . |
| 21 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 22 | The idea that John was trying out his ideas in private first , getting them carefully developed before he actually faced his cast , is confirmed by another letter to Hanns in which he wrote , ‘ I have written the first record , and am starting rehearsals for S. T . |
| 23 | Thanks to I have become the first DECcie to join the greatest mailing list in the world ; - ) . |
| 24 | Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book . |
| 25 | I have done the first … |
| 26 | And now I have to interrupt the first bit of pleasure I 've been able to take in I do n't know how long and put you all to right . |
| 27 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 28 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |
| 29 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 30 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |