Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [that] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’ |
| 2 | Tradition has it that the first fenoderee was actually a handsome prince from the proud fairy tribe of the Ferrishyn . |
| 3 | Popular mythology among mothers has it that the first child is always the most ‘ difficult ’ , and it is easy to see why this should be so . |
| 4 | Legend has it that the first ‘ teddy bear ’ was created for him after an unsuccessful hunting trip . |
| 5 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 6 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 7 | Watch out for log books which tell you that the first owner was Engineering Educational Trust . |
| 8 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 9 | The readings tell us that the first communities of Christians were united heart and soul in the Lord . |
| 10 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 11 | Any handbook on assertiveness techniques will tell you that the first rule is to make eye contact with your interviewers . |
| 12 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 13 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 14 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |