Example sentences of "[pron] first [noun sg] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I mean to me , I do n't know whether I 'm right , but that my first thought is that they must be buying it very |
| 2 | My first thought was that they must have come to ask my father for his help in interpreting . |
| 3 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
| 4 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 5 | ‘ My first impression was that he was rather full of himself , ’ she says . |
| 6 | My first impression was that you 'd be more at home putting up a brass plate in Harley Street . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 8 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 9 | My first reaction is that they are indeed blameless . |
| 10 | My first reaction is that it 's a bit shabby , lifting a third single from this year 's ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ . |
| 11 | My first reaction was that she was to do no such thing . |
| 12 | I must admit my first reaction was that it was a leg-pull ; there were always joke letters coming to me at the studio . |
| 13 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 14 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |
| 15 | Her first thought was that she would have to leave the flat . |
| 16 | When Professor Supasinee Tantistisuk was troubled by an acrid smell hanging over her village in Thailand , her first thought was that it must come from nearby industry — specifically the ICI Paints plant . |
| 17 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 18 | When he turned his first thought was that she too had been designed to impress . |
| 19 | She wore a leather coat and boots and his first thought was that she looked Slavonic , a Russian or a Pole . |
| 20 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 21 | His first reaction was that there had been a leak and he had phoned Mackie about the large sale of shares . |
| 22 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 23 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 24 | His first observation was that there had been some difference of opinion among the volunteers at Ropley . |