Example sentences of "first [noun] [noun sg] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well . |
2 | Besides what happens if Rocky goes and then Strach gets injured , who do we have as cover in the midfield — Hodge , he 's hardly played much first team footballer and his whilst his goal scoring skills are fine he is not in the same class as Rocky or Strachan . |
3 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
4 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
5 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
6 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
7 | Me elder brother was in the First World War and he er he got married and er she was a flighty sort of girl and she was n't attending to er Mabel properly , the little girl , she had a girl and a boy . |
8 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
9 | Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . |
10 | Medau interested her enough for Olive to take part in our first training course and she was also a member of one of our early display teams . |
11 | Throughout shooting , Crawford was on the set all the time , even when not needed , because it was his first film musical and he was eager to learn . |
12 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
13 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
14 | Give us a ring Nottingham three four three four three four we 'll send them by first class post and we 'll put need your postcode . |
15 | A spokesman for the National Housebuilding Council said : ‘ Every housing chain begins with a first time buyer and we are hopeful that this vital part of the market will be encouraged by the Chancellor 's additional concession . ’ |
16 | ‘ The target is a 25 per cent improvement on first time quality and we 're already well up on last year . ’ |
17 | This was Mayall 's first Hollywood film and he should n't hold his breath waiting for a second chance . |