Example sentences of "the first [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then . |
| 2 | What is absolutely sure is that Montini , even during the first session when Pope John was alive , provided the plan that saved the Council from chaos and then , on becoming pope , saw it patiently through to the end despite formidable difficulties . |
| 3 | It 's the first session when they have actually identified some of the strands that you are going to pursue and then subsequently looking is framed by that decision . |
| 4 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 5 | Trident was hugely expensive — £10 billion at the first assessment alone . |
| 6 | It pays to do the first work well , of course , for if there are frequent digging-out excavations you , in effect , sever the burrow systems and then fill them in . |
| 7 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 8 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 9 | Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain . |
| 10 | And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves . |
| 11 | Fighting erupted in the chamber on the first day when the eight delegates from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) raised a banner protesting against " constitutional blackmail " by the Assembly 's elderly members . |
| 12 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 13 | When I went to Asdas on the first day when he was telling me about erm sales , loads of people erm |
| 14 | ‘ I remembered the Factor 15 , better for the first day anyway . ’ |
| 15 | The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained . |
| 16 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 17 | They 're showing all them , mm , all the er wickets and all the runs from the first day onwards . |
| 18 | The good feelings of the first day soon disappeared in the second round though . |
| 19 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |
| 20 | The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket . |
| 21 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 22 | until , the first day out from Liverpool , |
| 23 | The first day there I noticed all these queens waltzing in and out . |
| 24 | and I are off tomorrow and it 's the first day off that we 've had together you know , for |
| 25 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |
| 26 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 28 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 29 | Even the first day back there was hardly any atmosphere at all very serious mood they were but Kim keeps well out of it . |
| 30 | The first man simply ignored me . |