Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was very upset for the first day , then I started settling down . |
| 2 | ‘ He was very charming in the first days and said he was really jealous that I could live like this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was only the second long distance walk I 've tackled , and very different from the first . |
| 4 | The first two variants of the model imply that their marginal disutility of leisure is very high after the first period . |
| 5 | ‘ He was very serious in the first of the pictures , ’ the director now remembers . |
| 6 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 7 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
| 8 | They can hardly be very late in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 9 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ John was very good , ’ said Bob , who had told old Harry Stearns that he was very good in the first place . |
| 11 | Among the various BSc mathematical degrees the curriculum is very flexible in the first two years , and the degree choice can be kept open until the end of the second year . |
| 12 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |
| 13 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 14 | It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place . |
| 15 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 16 | Presented here is an experience very divergent from the first two : a total neglect and , indeed , ignorance of educational considerations . |
| 17 | New leys are usually very productive in the first two or three years . |