Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this , we assume that nothing changes after the first T periods . |
| 2 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 3 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 4 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 5 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 6 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 7 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 8 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 9 | But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council . |
| 10 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 11 | It has , not surprisingly , been at the forefront of critical enterprises which have considered literature 's different relations with history that we explored in the first chapter . |
| 12 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 13 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 14 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 15 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 16 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 17 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 18 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 19 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 20 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 21 | Although Nizan died physically on 23 May 1940 , there can be little doubt that he died for the first time , politically and to a large extent emotionally , that afternoon in late August 1939 when , standing on the harbour at Ajaccio , he read Aragon " s editorial in Ce Soir and was confronted by the bitter reality of Nazi-Soviet collaboration . |
| 22 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 23 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 24 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 25 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 26 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |