Example sentences of "we [vb past] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 2 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 3 | until we got the first order . |
| 4 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
| 5 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
| 6 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 7 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 8 | We stopped the first night at an inn on the banks of a river . |
| 9 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 10 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 11 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 12 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 13 | In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production . |
| 14 | We birdied the first couple of holes and we were on top of the world . |
| 15 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
| 16 | We watched the first recording , the questions were easy . |
| 17 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 18 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |
| 19 | We knew the first violin would be able to play a bit — he was , after all , Leon Spierer , the concert-master of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra — but what of the rest ? |
| 20 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 21 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 22 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 23 | At last , in the far distance , we glimpsed the first lights of Salamanca . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what we did the first night we met . ’ |
| 25 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 26 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 27 | From what we learned the first evening we were here , Rose is very well heeled and it 's obvious that by sharing her home , Dora enjoys a lot of luxuries she could never afford by herself . |
| 28 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
| 29 | remember what we said the first thing to date you have to understand what you 're trying to do |
| 30 | ‘ We had the first juke-box in the town after the war , the first knickerbocker glories and the first Pepsi-Colas . ’ |