Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 3 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 4 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 5 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 6 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 7 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 8 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 9 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 10 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 11 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 12 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 13 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 14 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 16 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 17 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 18 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 19 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 20 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 21 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 22 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 23 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 24 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 25 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 26 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 27 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 28 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 29 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 30 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |