Example sentences of "i [vb base] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No erm well I , I mean the first day er in the , the mor |
| 2 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 3 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 4 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 5 | Yeah it is , I mean the first time I bought it |
| 6 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 7 | But I mean the first step is always the hardest . |
| 8 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 9 | When I say the first floor , I 'm talking about the ground floor and the first floor , you know ? |
| 10 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 11 | times , I forget the first time I had her . |
| 12 | Clamping one of these rulers to the board and keeping both rulers together , I cut the first groove , and then widen the groove by putting a shim between the rulers . |
| 13 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 14 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
| 15 | I imagine the first reprint would have been erm |
| 16 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 17 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 18 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 19 | Because of exclamation mark , and despite the lower case " w " , I read the first clause as complete , thus giving it fuller deictic impact . |
| 20 | I read the first sentence : ‘ It is always difficult to summarize in a page the life of a living giant without somehow reducing the giant to a mere man . ’ |
| 21 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 22 | ‘ I know the first match is the hardest to get through . |
| 23 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 24 | As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated . |
| 25 | I remember the first inservice training on AIDS that Switchboard held . |
| 26 | I remember the first TV documentary I saw about gays — the participants appeared only in silhouette and questions were couched in hushed and tragic tones . |
| 27 | I remember the first day I met him . |
| 28 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 29 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |
| 30 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |