Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 3 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 4 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 5 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 6 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 7 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 8 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 9 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 10 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 11 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 12 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 13 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 15 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 16 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 17 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 18 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 19 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 21 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 22 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 23 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 24 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 25 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 26 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 27 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 28 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 29 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really . |