Example sentences of "first thing that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
2 Well the first thing that we want to think about is why well trained staff are so important to the company and do this very much a participated session , ignore the tape , I am , I 've forgotten about it already !
3 the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept
4 It is n't being critical at all but on this position situation that might the first thing that we
5 The first thing that we see , and it 's so obvious , is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple !
6 Copyright : ADAGP , Paris/DACS , London , 1989 The first thing that I feel when I look at Miro 's Painting is a sense of sublime calm .
7 My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell .
8 ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien .
9 The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring .
10 His column in the Angling Times was the first thing that I turned to and what a mine of information .
11 And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme .
12 the first thing that I do at the beginning of the lesson is one sec
13 Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’
14 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
15 The first thing that he noticed was that the lights were out and that she 'd set up candles from his emergency supply in one of the kitchen cupboards .
16 But the first thing that he says is really at the heart of his answer to the differing points of view about false ‘ gods ’ .
17 Perhaps the first thing that he will tell us is whether his hon. Friend cleared that article with him in advance .
18 The first thing that he obviously ma , was made aware of , was that the Lord Jesus is always ready to meet the need of a seeking soul .
19 The last passage I 'm going to have time to read comes in the erm speech of Adam erm , not actually speech , the inward soliloquy to Adam , the first thing that he says he says his case is not yet fallen when he sees Eve .
20 The first thing that you notice about the Antares is its modern looks .
21 The first thing that you should examine is the time out value set up in your PostScript printer driver .
22 First thing that you see .
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