Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 2 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 3 | Honey Come Back was one of the first singles I ever bought , and I always loved the way he played . ’ |
| 4 | the first bananas I saw , my |
| 5 | From the first texts I published , I have attempted to systematize a deconstructive critique precisely against the authority of meaning , as the transcendental signified or as telos , in other words , history determined in the last analysis as the history of meaning , history in its logocentric , metaphysical , idealist … representation . |
| 6 | The first membranes they made were far too thin and would not survive transfer into air , let alone freeze-drying . |
| 7 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 8 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 9 | Having only recently arrived in the Province , this is the first ti me he has had to do them , and they are taking him some ti me . |
| 10 | Almost wrenching off the fragile beaded jacket , and unfastening the strapless dress so that it plummeted to the floor , she grabbed the first garments she found — light pink cotton trousers and a grey and white striped cotton blouse — then forced her feet into flat leather sandals without stopping to undo and refasten the thin buckled straps . |
| 11 | Erm but in the meantime those are the first essays I can er erm are you erm , working on that or thinking about that ? |
| 12 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 13 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 14 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 15 | In one of the first cases he had taken , in 1923 , it must have been , the year after he came back — Fantina was still a baby — a widow had accused her neighbour of killing her cow out of spite . |
| 16 | The first birds we see are a group of turnstones and a redshank , busily feeding in the park below the house , probing into the area of damaged grass where my neighbour 's sheep are fed . |
| 17 | And one of the first birds we saw ? |
| 18 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 19 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 20 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 21 | But size is the first criteria it seems to me that one should be looking at . |
| 22 | The first friends I met were the bridegroom 's half-sister Lady Tana Focke , with Mr Paul Focke , and their two very attractive teenage daughters Diana Focke and Victoria Focke . |
| 23 | Actress and comedienne Helen Lederer , star of BBC2 's Naked Video and BBC Radio 4 's Life with Lederer , is pictured in her kitchen creating an omelette — one of the first dishes she ever learned to cook ‘ really well ’ . |
| 24 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 25 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 26 | Ah these are the first ones I 've . |
| 27 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 28 | The first detectors he says were ‘ Made literally on a garage workbench ’ . |
| 29 | It is one of the first operas I conducted when I went to Ulm . |
| 30 | The first authorities we meet on the Celts , Ephorus and Timaeus , are typical armchair historians . |