Example sentences of "first [noun sg] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 2 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 3 | The first benefit that I believe we have gained is a better ability to define what are and are not suitable tasks for the application of AI , in particular expert systems . |
| 4 | This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited . |
| 5 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 6 | This being the first moment that I have not had my hand on him , he seizes the opportunity . |
| 7 | Dealing with the first theme that I mentioned , Dickens uses the word ‘ gentleman ’ a lot in the novel — it is like a leitmotif . |
| 8 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 9 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 10 | Here 's the first file that I 've got , this is the sales file , and , to bring the second file into memory in this , this One Two Three Release Three , you do file open . |
| 11 | That was 12 years ago , and after winning the first race that I entered between Sudbury and Bures in a non-racing canoe , I had caught the bug . ’ |
| 12 | It is not the first occasion that I have had to accept the disappointment of missing an international . |
| 13 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 14 | Er , on the first day that I joined this Council which was the first day that you joined er Councillor . |
| 15 | Mr Whitechurch described it : ‘ The first train that I went over was the very latest type of West Coast Joint Stock corridor , designed to run from Euston at 11.30 am to Edinburgh and Glasgow , returning from Edinburgh at 11.35 . |
| 16 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 17 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 18 | It is the first letter that I have had here in a year … ’ |
| 19 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 21 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 22 | His column in the Angling Times was the first thing that I turned to and what a mine of information . |
| 23 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 24 | Copyright : ADAGP , Paris/DACS , London , 1989 The first thing that I feel when I look at Miro 's Painting is a sense of sublime calm . |
| 25 | the first thing that I do at the beginning of the lesson is one sec |
| 26 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 27 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 28 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 29 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 30 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |