Example sentences of "our [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event .
2 Creditor business continues to be influenced by high levels of unemployment but rating action taken has resulted in an improving trend and this has been confirmed by our experience in the first quarter of 1993 .
3 Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying .
4 Venables added : ‘ It is unfair that the stigma of being a cheat was attached to Gordon and to our club in the first place , especially when you consider some of the play-acting that goes on abroad . ’
5 In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility .
6 Morrison East is now well poised to make a profitable contribution to our business for the first time .
7 we 've achieved our er our aim in the first half of the seminar .
8 God introduces us to our true selves , so that we come to recognize ourselves , and our God for the first time .
9 ‘ I will never forget our victory in the first French Test , ’ he added .
10 Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension .
11 Yes but it was our mistake in the first place .
12 Our objective in the first part of this chapter is to combine these pieces of analysis and so derive a more general model ( developed originally by J.R .
13 ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology .
14 Nevertheless , a number of factors can be briefly identified which explain why it makes sense to stop our account of the first age of party in 1715 .
15 Resembling the proverbial Cheshire Cat , SDR General Manager Richard Elliott commented : ‘ I 'm delighted to have ‘ City of Truro ’ on our railway for the first time .
16 When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost .
17 ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place .
18 We made our way across the first four barges .
19 This removed our interest in the first phase of the proposed Super-SARA programme .
20 This thing , about involving our chap in the first place , not your style , at all . ’
21 It was partly because he was tired and unhappy , leaving home and our mother for the first time … ’
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