Example sentences of "very first [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a particularly bitter blow for Leeds , because in the very first minute they should have levelled the tie . |
| 2 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah the very first school I went to was quite disciplined . |
| 4 | THE very first night he took her out , Frank Ableson proposed to his wife , Stella . |
| 5 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Beth taught herself how to sit because on her very first session she was kicked violently in the chest . |
| 7 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 8 | the very first year we was in business . |
| 9 | From the very first day I enjoyed it . |
| 10 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 11 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 12 | The very first day he was a bit worried so |
| 13 | Despite our unsavoury choice of shipmates , our arrival was cause for celebration , and on the very first afternoon we were whisked away from Sinar Surya to stay in the comfort of the sultan 's guesthouse , which was far more impressive than anything we had seen in Makassar . |
| 14 | After parting from his jockey Macer Gifford at the very first fence he had continued with the rest of the field all the way round , clearing every obstacle and keeping with the herd . |
| 15 | I still have the very first letter I wrote from home : ‘ Please Mam , say you love me and bring me home ’ . |
| 16 | I 've felt that from the very first moment we got here . ’ |
| 17 | I 've loved you from the very first moment I saw you . |
| 18 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 19 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |
| 20 | What that word represented had begun to grow in her from almost the very first moment she had seen him . |
| 21 | No matter how thorough our precautions , however , trouble will strike from time to time and , as with all forms of sickness , the very first thing we then have to do is diagnose or identify the cause . |
| 22 | Well , I suppose the very first thing we 've got ta ask is just , who or what are these ninety nine sheep ? |
| 23 | ‘ The very first thing I 'll do when I get 'ome is take her a bunch of flowers . |
| 24 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |
| 25 | Tina had told Jack the very first time they met : ‘ My dad hates the place — like my brothers do . ’ |
| 26 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 27 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 28 | His mouth closed over hers again , the touch of it as intoxicating as it had been the very first time he had kissed her . |
| 29 | He was brilliant the very first time he ran . |
| 30 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |