Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 2 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 3 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 4 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 8 | I hated it the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 12 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 13 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 14 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 15 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 16 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 17 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 18 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 19 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 21 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 22 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |
| 23 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 24 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 25 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 26 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 27 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't think I ever have done Heathrow , oh wait a minute , did I the first year ? |
| 29 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 30 | I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth . |