Example sentences of "first [noun] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it quantity — or quality — you are after ? ’ was his first question that morning . |
| 2 | Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later . |
| 3 | The information had arrived by the first post that morning , and Jared Tunstall already knew more about Neil Cochrane than Neil Cochrane did about him . |
| 4 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 5 | The sight of his motorcycle first thing that morning had made it necessary for his Mother to speak sharply to him about his language . |
| 6 | The first lesson that afternoon was mental arithmetic . |
| 7 | This was the first year that Environment Achievement Awards have been made , so Johnson Matthey was particularly proud to have been included among the 12 initial companies to be granted the new honour . |
| 8 | Emergency services could face additional problems over the next few days - the first weekend that ambulance officers have been involved in the action . |
| 9 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 10 | One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race . |
| 11 | For the first time that weekend the rain had stopped , and although it was still overcast we could make out something of the beauties of the landscape . |
| 12 | There were still tears in her eyes , but for the first time that weekend there was colour in her cheeks as well . |
| 13 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 14 | It is the first time that Pizza Hut has opened an Express slice operation in a leisure attraction of Thorpe Park 's size . |
| 15 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 16 | Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives . |
| 17 | For the first time that year she sniffed autumn . |
| 18 | It 's the first time that protection against meningitis has been offered as a routine childhood immunisation , as Jessica Fowle reports |
| 19 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 20 | ( This , incidentally , was the first time that Boy had heard Madame refer to herself as Mother . ) |
| 21 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 22 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 23 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 24 | When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day . |
| 25 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 26 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 27 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 28 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 29 | He opened the letter , saw the name at the bottom , and smiled for the first time that day . |
| 30 | Not for the first time that day , the Doctor was to be proved wrong . |