Example sentences of "first this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts . |
2 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
3 | We have won four elections in a row — a first this century , ’ Mr Patten said . |
4 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
5 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
6 | Alice held her flamingo 's body under her arm , but the flamingo turned its long neck first this way and then that way . |
7 | Unwins have an intriguing first this year with ‘ Creation ’ , the first F1 hybrid shallot to be grown from seed . |
8 | Another first this year was our extra sponsorship to Crufts and in return they asked Essex Dog Display to perform in the Main Ring — needless to say they brought the house down ! |
9 | Two opportunist tries by Saint-Andre , his third in the current championship , and Sella , his first this year , sealed the fate of the hapless Irish still searching for an elusive win after 11 consecutive games . |
10 | It is killing on both sides , Mr Gibson 's death is the fifty first this year , lives taken , families destroyed . |
11 | Plus I wan na get my car first this year . |
12 | Er I wan na get my car first this year so that gives me time to save for next year . |
13 | But first this lunchtime , Lou Macari has been officially welcomed to Celtic Park . |
14 | But first this lunchtime , a woman who plotted the murder of her husband has walked free from the High Court in Edinburgh . |
15 | But first this lunchtime , a mother has told of her anguish as she struggled to deal with her daughter 's drug addiction . |
16 | But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon . |
17 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
18 | But first this lunchtime , an Ayrshire widow , who 's suing Imperial Tobacco after her husband contracted terminal lung cancer , has been refused legal aid to fund her historic damages action . |
19 | But first this lunchtime , the man who shot dead a German tourist in Stranraer in July has been jailed for life . |
20 | But first this lunchtime , Prince Charles has chosen Glasgow to launch an outspoken attack on the evils of urban deprivation and poverty . |
21 | But first this lunchtime , unions and management at the Jetstream factory in Prestwick are on a collision course over compulsory redundancies . |
22 | Our second patient first this pattern , with an onset of jaundice approximately six weeks after piroxicam was begun . |
23 | We 're going angling first this week to the Bushyleaze Lake in Lechlade … the country 's top fly fishers have been in action in the British final of the Airflow Classic … |
24 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
25 | Suggest several reasons why first this town and then the whole conurbation have grown in size ? |
26 | Because of its advanced snow technology , it is America first this season . |
27 | Because of its advanced snow technology it is America first this season . |
28 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
29 | But first this report from Debbie Kelly on the fight against joyriding . |
30 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |