Example sentences of "and i [vb base] the first " in BNC.
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1 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |
2 | And I remember the first time , I poured a whole jugful of water in . |
3 | He stepped closer to John Russell 's roan horse and I remember the first thing he said . |
4 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
5 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
6 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
7 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
8 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |