Example sentences of "first [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 2 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 3 | He bought a bottle of brandy at the first liquor store he found and he began to drink . |
| 4 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 5 | I enquired about local clubs at the first bike shop I went to , with the idea of doing some weekend riding with them , perhaps . |
| 6 | ‘ Against a good First Division side it will be double figures . |
| 7 | ‘ Against a good First Division side it will be double figures . |
| 8 | And as they prepare for first division football he 's relishing another challenge , just as he 's looking forward to renewing acquaintances with certain Meath players today . |
| 9 | The very first RAF uniform I saw was worn by FIt Lt Wedgwood Benn DSO , DFC — father of Anthony Wedgwood Benn — MP who was the Member of Parliament for Leith when he visited my school . |
| 10 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 11 | The second page will then be displayed showing the first mail message you selected . |
| 12 | No no the first mail run we had was just merely from to Rousay to collect the Rousay mails and dump them at the Rousay pier and they were sorted in Rousay for Egilsay and Wyre besides that . |
| 13 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 14 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 15 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 16 | At the first watering place they jumped from the open wagons and rushed to douse their burning clothes . |
| 17 | Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading . |
| 18 | • At our first counselling session I asked Valerie to describe Keith 's character ; he was loving , caring and independent . |
| 19 | And people who might even have voted Labour , or Lib Dem at the general election , at the first opinion poll they 'll say they vote Conservative . |
| 20 | It was the first silk garment she had owned , and it had been expensive , but Faye 's silk clothes always looked and felt so wonderful … |
| 21 | Both gods and mortal men found her captivating , and by her first husband Tithonius she became the mother of Memnon , King of Ethiopia and one of the Egyptian gods . |
| 22 | ‘ From the moment I first saw freestyle I knew it was the sport for me — there was so much more to it than ordinary skiing — it was beautiful and the ultimate in skiing athleticism . ’ |
| 23 | Naked Lunch is the first Cronenberg film I have sat through without being reduced to a state of rigid terror . |
| 24 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 25 | For many , the first reggae album they bought was 1974 's ‘ Natty Dread ’ . |
| 26 | What they what they should do the , the milk I 'd say your first pint cost you twenty six thirty six |
| 27 | I 'll tell you something , if I it would be the first cruise liner I could find and I 'd be away and I |
| 28 | After his first phone call he turned up at Lynsey 's north London home only hours later . |
| 29 | After his first court appearance he received dozens of letters of support from the public . |
| 30 | Oh no it 's not bad , I think it were er the first swear word I remember that went , went on it were wait a minute tape two , tape one ai n't got none on that I know of . |