Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 2 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 3 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 4 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 5 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 6 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 7 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 8 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 9 | ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return . |
| 10 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 12 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 13 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 14 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 15 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |
| 17 | They see it as the first stage in widening contacts with Western Europe . |