Example sentences of "[pron] first [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 2 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 3 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
| 4 | From their first hullo the rapport was there , for Jock Menzies spoke with Rob 's accent . |
| 5 | A sizeable proportion — the Americans , Canadians , Australians , New Zealanders — have as their first language the most supranational of all tongues , English . |
| 6 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 7 | In its first year the plant will process 500 BMWs , building up to its capacity of 2,500 , by operating as a factory in reverse — working on the premise that everything that is bolted , welded , glued , screwed or sewn in can be used again . |
| 8 | He predicted that in its first year the company would have a turnover of about £140m . |
| 9 | On its first day the Congress , after acrimonious debate and procedural wrangling , rejected by only one vote a proposal to make the election of the Supreme Soviet Chairman one of its first agenda items . |
| 10 | For its first season the driver and guard of the Gondola were dressed as Venetian gondoliers , much to the amusement of the other platform staff . |
| 11 | Until 1979 , the government assigned to the CNES as its first task the ( French ) conquest of space . |
| 12 | The book wastes no time in stressing in its first paragraph the medical hazards of climbing these mountains , on which one can rapidly gain height up the accessible tourist routes to altitudes high enough to cause acute mountain sickness . |
| 13 | In its first week the Tour made acknowledgement to Spain . |
| 14 | However the children were less bullied , although Olivia , who till now had run about under her mother 's feet , received her first caning the day after her sixth birthday , having grown pert in the meantime , living away from the rest . |
| 15 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 16 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 17 | A charming cover , such an improvement on the terrible yellow of her first novel The Wayward Tide . |
| 18 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 19 | On her first flight the drag held her back . |
| 20 | For much of her first term the thrust of economic policy was regarded sceptically by many colleagues . |
| 21 | It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome . |
| 22 | After a while you get when you first start the first time you ever ride a two wheeler and you have someone holding it or you have some stabilizers on till you know what you 're doing . |
| 23 | You first pound the garlic to a mash , then stir in the yolks , add a little salt , then the oil , exactly as for a mayonnaise . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Before simulating the effects of benefit changes on the expected durations for selected group of individuals , we first report the results from setting the discount rate equal to infinity . |
| 25 | The exercise was also aimed at big business — experts from some of Britain 's largest chemical companies were invited , to show them first hand the consequences should chemcial cargoes be released in such an accident . |
| 26 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 27 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 28 | Like Sukenick and Pynchon , Wurlitzer has acknowledged an influence from Kerouac which can be seen in the open structure of his first novel The Octopus ( 1969 : published in America under the title Nog ) . |
| 29 | His first book , containing two stories , ‘ Odette D'Antrevernes ’ and ‘ A Study in Temperament ’ , was published in 1905 ; and in the following summer he was at work on his first novel The Artificial Princess ( published posthumously in 1934 ) : in it he devised the techniques of elliptical narrative and baroque construction , and the manner , at once satirical and lyric , concentrated and fragmentary , that were to characterize his mature work . |
| 30 | His first novel The Will to Love ( 1919 ) appeared under the name Hugh Lunn . |