Example sentences of "first this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Route Impériale was laid out by Napoleon , the First this time , for strategic rather than aesthetic purposes , but it is a delight , a quiet , curly road along a ridge with long vistas of farms and moor land to the east , and of more farms , villages and cultivation to the west . |
| 32 | I 'm first this time . |
| 33 | Keith got here first this time and bagged the comfortable chair . |
| 34 | Steve , I 'm going to give it to you first this time That 's right , yes , that 's good , So you can actually throw away the cover sheet , you , you really do n't need that . |
| 35 | And it 's his go first this time is n't it ? |
| 36 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 37 | At first this strategy produced disappointing results , as the French authorities in North Africa , Indochina , and Syria rallied to Vichy . |
| 38 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 39 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |