Example sentences of "first [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First suggesting I was involved in some insurance fraud and then as good as saying Mom walked out on us ! |
| 2 | In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration . |
| 3 | You first bring me some plywood , and then I 'll give you the picture ’ . |
| 4 | Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler . |
| 5 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |
| 6 | The cat was n't the bonny creature it had been when Rose had first given it to him . |
| 7 | It was Thomas who had on their many rambles first made her see the city in all its architectural wonder , distinguishing between façades , pointing out detail . |
| 8 | Apparently named after the woman who first made them , in Bath , towards the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same . |
| 10 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 11 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 12 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 13 | One of the first to treat her was the noted Jungian psychotherapist Dr Allan McGlashan , a friend of Laurens van der Post , who has consulting rooms conveniently near to Kensington Palace . |
| 14 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 15 | I first realised it the day of Len 's funeral , when I spilled the beans . |
| 16 | David , who has spent £20,000 on treatments , clothing and devices to help him appear to be a woman , first realised he was different when he was six . |
| 17 | In the event of illness or injury to the Claimant it may be necessary to obtain permission to approach the Claimant 's Doctor to confirm when the Claimant first consulted him . |
| 18 | In the first account it was Elohim , God the Creator , the great and lofty One who inhabits eternity . |
| 19 | following the work 's experience there is a half term there , so it can either come before that or after it and I 'll do a unit and it might be on safety or , if I ca n't erm first aid I might get safety in and they 'll do it like that and we 'll fill in some units . |
| 20 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 21 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 22 | Reg has remained a bachelor ever since he first asked her to marry him when they were childhood sweethearts in Cirencester . |
| 23 | was saying the overall winner was Lucinda Murray on Just Jeremy , and er he first asked her over er a glass of champagne I believe , celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday with a party on Friday , er was that beneficial to success ? |
| 24 | ‘ When the record company first asked me to talk to people , I just did . |
| 25 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 26 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 27 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 28 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 29 | He was approached by the gang who first asked him for change . |
| 30 | I first asked him what changes he would like to see in the history . |