Example sentences of "about the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I should like to bring in erm support about the first lady about the her child , but actually I 've more agreement with the last woman speaker when she was saying there was too much saturation about the Gulf . |
| 2 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 3 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 4 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 5 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
| 6 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 7 | At the bottom of page one , there was a story about the first American lost in the war : Lieutenant-Commander Michael Scott Speicher . |
| 8 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's about the first night . ’ |
| 10 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 11 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 12 | Were they talking about the first steamship crossing the Atlantic ? |
| 13 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 14 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 15 | There is a measure of dubiety ( I like to use American ambassadorial language on the appropriate occasion ) about the first word , ‘ It 's ’ . |
| 16 | Never mind further in , how about the first couple of feet ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What about the first identification ? |
| 18 | ‘ And what about the first half of my question ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 20 | I 'm also baffled about the first half in more respect than one . |
| 21 | That about the first weekend . |
| 22 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |
| 23 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
| 24 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 25 | To register your interest in the Club and to receive further information about the first meeting , please contact the address below . |
| 26 | There is an increasing body of knowledge about the first group but little about the other two . |
| 27 | I am talking now about the first shot . |
| 28 | Charles had completely forgotten about the first entrance of McWhirter . |
| 29 | I am talking about the first attempt to amend regulation 72 to exclude supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of that regulation . |
| 30 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |