Example sentences of "and the first [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 2 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 3 | It is quite simple to add a piece of decoration to a stocking stitch garment and the first question that arises is , how much ? |
| 4 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 5 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 7 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 8 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 9 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 10 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 11 | The audience influences the style by indicating the seriousness , formality , or otherwise that the publication should adopt and the first area that this affects is the way the text is laid out on the page . |
| 12 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |