Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 3 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 6 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 7 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 8 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 9 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 10 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 11 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 12 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 13 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 14 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 15 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 16 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 17 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 18 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 19 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 20 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 21 | As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library . |
| 22 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 23 | The welcome feature about SuperCalc 5.5 's Fast Graphing facility is that when you include text that you want to use as the first and second titles and as the graph legend in the range you highlight , they will automatically be added to the chart that results when you click on the icon GPH . |
| 24 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 25 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 26 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 27 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 28 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 29 | Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House . |
| 30 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |