Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever there was a vacancy at his newspaper for a trainee reporter , he loyally gave the first opportunity to someone from the school . |
| 2 | I tried opium , and my first experience with anything really hard , using it intravenously , was when I used Omnopon which was from a lifeboat , y'know , from the life-saving equipment on a lifeboat . |
| 3 | It is always sensible to avoid contact with blood spillages as much as possible when giving first aid to anyone . |
| 4 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 5 | They put me in touch with a few other people in nearby Sheffield and we arranged to have a tentative first meeting in someone 's flat . |
| 6 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
| 7 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 8 | According to her personality type , she can be expected to react on this first day with anything from brave smiles to tension and tears , but this will be quite normal . |
| 9 | A FIRST priority for anyone considering buying a house in Cornwall and some areas of neighbouring Devon including the more remoter regions of Dartmoor is to have it tested for radon gas . |
| 10 | A first flight in something as eccentric as a microlight will leave an impression that is indelible however hard you may try to forget it . |
| 11 | The first hole in one ever to be recorded at the fourth gave Jeff Sluman the early momentum and his 65 caught Lanny Wadkins , who has now been under par in seven consecutive rounds at Augusta . |
| 12 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
| 13 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
| 14 | Otherwise such times can be worked out in advance and become a first call on everyone 's schedule . |
| 15 | Somebody here observed that it must be the first Life on somebody so reclusive and how therefore did the programme-makers manage to find enough guests ? |
| 16 | Furthermore , the individuals gradually become knowledgeable over the entire spectrum of aviation to the extent that when they are confronted with something new and different , like hot air balloons or hang gliders , or , at the other end of the scale , vectored thrust and variable geometry ( swing-wing ) aircraft , they are not thrown off balance on the first encounter with something different . |
| 17 | Not that childbirth was the first thing on anyone 's mind yesterday . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know the first thing about anything , really . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , there 's a first time for everything , as I m sure you remember , Mrs Cornforth … |
| 20 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 21 | But you know the old saying , there 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 22 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 23 | Ruth was not going to admit that she had never actually made a phone-call herself , but there had to be a first time for everything , and since Connor was out , this would be the ideal opportunity . |
| 24 | He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 25 | They 'll be a first time for everything ! |
| 26 | At the first whiff of something like this , you 'd hear nothing but the sound of running feet . |
| 27 | And you realize that maybe they made love first time to What Do You Want , they had their first kid to Poor Me , they they bought their first house to Someone Else 's Baby , I mean there 's fantastic memories , and that carries o , and I carry all that now . |