Example sentences of "the first [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first patient we described presented with jaundice 15 months after beginning piroxicam . |
| 2 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 3 | The first work he went to see was The Sleeping Beauty , ‘ which you would hate , with sumptuous settings and dresses by Messel which you would adore . ’ |
| 4 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 5 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 6 | Marie told me I should n't leave it on when I ai n't in the room , and here I am — the first day she 's gone and I 've gone and left it on . |
| 7 | This was precisely her own conclusion , but Jamie was the first man she 'd met who agreed with her . |
| 8 | ‘ The first man I hear saying anything bad about our mistress will receive this in his face , ’ and he banged his great heavy hand down on the maltster 's table . |
| 9 | Sarfraz Nawaz was the first man I saw do it , but most Pakistan fast bowlers have the ability to swing the old ball . |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll not be the first man I 've seen after he 's tried to fill up a car with a lighted cigarette in his mouth — nor the last . |
| 11 | In the first year they decided to dig a boating pond . |
| 12 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 13 | Erm , having said that , I think lecturers tend to accumulate these things over time and this is the first year I 've run this course so I do n't have a great stock of things I can I can show you . |
| 14 | This is the first year I 've put Lynda into the Giants , but her recent exposure has been terrific and I 'm sure will do wonders for this twins tale spotted with sex and violence with Auschwitz roots . |
| 15 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 16 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 17 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 18 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 19 | you 're the first person we 've seen , right , how you gon na deal with that ? |
| 20 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 21 | This friend was the first person he heard pray spontaneously ( without reading out of a prayer book ) and Richard soon learned to follow his example . |
| 22 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 23 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 24 | You 're the first person I 've said that to who said come back to me and said yes . |
| 25 | You are the first person I 've told , apart from the self-help organisation , but you wo n't be the last . |
| 26 | ‘ In fact … ’ she swallowed , realisation dawning on her as she met Guy 's intent appraisal ‘ … you 're the first person I 've told … ’ |
| 27 | You are the first person I have told , Elinor . |
| 28 | The first bite I take makes all the jam squirt out the side over my chin . |
| 29 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 30 | This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac . |