Example sentences of "first [noun] [conj] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er the first bombs that came over Britain they must be erm our company got it ! |
| 2 | The promotion race in the first division and coming up tomorrow at the County Ground , it is Swindon against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 3 | First of all , I want you to write down , the first words that come into your mind , the first say half a dozen words that come into your mind when you think about stress . |
| 4 | the first bug that comes along says right |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 6 | The driver of the first car that came by asked us for directions : we laughed and said we were flying , not driving ! |
| 7 | Allow them to be whoever they are , trusting the first images that come to mind . |
| 8 | He did n't see them hurry down the street and take the first turning that came : Jess talking and talking now . |
| 9 | It was the first name that came into my head ! |
| 10 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 11 | ‘ When you have a child to consider you do n't go rushing into the first relationship that comes along . |
| 12 | I could wish the first chance that came her way was n't nursing some poor old woman with a weak chest . |
| 13 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 14 | First I mind about it was the first zeppelin that came over . |
| 15 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 16 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 17 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 18 | But there was no balers in Orkney then at all , that was the first balers that came here . |
| 19 | " The flower girl " ( Pygmalion ) was the first book that came to mind for one very elderly survivor . " |
| 20 | The first bank that comes into the ratings is NatWest or Barclays at number fifteen . ’ |
| 21 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 22 | She had Oz by the shoulder and Jinny , tumbling nearly into her arms , said the first thing that came into her head . |
| 23 | I could hardly believe it , and said the first thing that came into my head . |
| 24 | Tweed said the first thing that came into his head . |
| 25 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 26 | Unable to bear this silent examination a moment longer , she said the first thing that came into her head . |
| 27 | He said the first thing that came into his mind that would eradicate any suspicion she was harbouring that he might soften towards her . |
| 28 | So Gabriel sang the first thing that came into his head — loudly : |
| 29 | He was blustering , saying the first thing that came into his head . |
| 30 | I said the first thing that came into my mind , but once I 'd had time to think everything through I realised what a mistake I 'd made . |