Example sentences of "[noun] first [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such practice first occurred it could be justified . |
| 2 | She states : ‘ Our quantitative analysis has shown that wives who were primary bread-winners at the time their husbands first raped them were more likely to take effective action . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |
| 4 | Two of the Bernard brothers first saw her seated at a bar drinking , whilst apparently listening to her male companion who was talking to her , quietly and seriously and in an unobtrusive manner . |
| 5 | Well on death , obviously a car first carries you away , if you 're ill it 's an ambulance . |
| 6 | Dulcie Howes first met him backstage at one of the performances , given in aid of a war charity . |
| 7 | When David first brought her to this house as his wife , Beth had hoped she could fit in , make this place a proper home for all of them . |
| 8 | ‘ When David first started he was totally crap . |
| 9 | But even so , when Angie first materialised I suppose I was a bit put out for two or three days . |
| 10 | SINCE THE Inspirals first wowed us with their heady mixture of growling pop , sensitive poetry and bad haircuts , much on the Planet Carpet has changed . |
| 11 | Later , as his family came into the world , it was to be the dining-room and a new surgery was built at the side of the house , but when Mrs Curdle first knew him , the doctor and his wife dined in the sunny little room at the back of the house , conveniently near to the kitchen . |
| 12 | being on the railway and er , you see , er and of course I went then under his pass I suppose Mr and Mrs then and er and then of course we started to er when my parents first died we , we started to get around . |
| 13 | To shoot your cannon first turn it on the spot so that it points towards your intended target . |
| 14 | I 'll never forget that Saturday morning when Granpa first let me run the barrow on my own . |
| 15 | It was like that feeling you get when the sun first hits you after breaking through the clouds . |
| 16 | ‘ The Lady Yolande first protested she was unwell from the sea voyage , then it was her time of the month when … ’ |
| 17 | When Central South first showed you these pictures last february , Watkins said that they were going to empty the shaft . |
| 18 | When she insists on pursuing the case against the onlookers , her boss first ridicules her , then revealingly loses his temper , telling her she 's finished — win or lose . |
| 19 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 20 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 21 | Suddenly , as the last few pupils left , there was an almighty scream and Mould came bounding into the room on two huge settee springs , just like the ones he had worn when Endill first met him . |
| 22 | But it was in the Coffee Gallery in Haleiwa that Bodo first introduced us . |
| 23 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 24 | My wife first introduced me to Cranham Community Church about a year ago . |
| 25 | He was no longer mean with his words , speaking only in monosyllables , as he had when Blanche first met him . |
| 26 | The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 29 | When Forester first introduced him as captain of the frigate Lydia , in The Happy Return , he announced in plain terms the contradiction in his nature : |
| 30 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |