Example sentences of "[pron] they first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 2 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 3 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 4 | T&M have reintroduced ‘ Brilliant ’ , a tall pink phlox suitable for cutting which they first listed in 1901 . |
| 5 | The English firm which they first suggested returned the typescript . |
| 6 | The eponymous notion of Ferdinand Magellan 's men that the Mar del Sur was a Pacific sea , blessed by fine weather and pleasant breezes , was more or less coded — at least , for that region of the Ocean through which they first sailed and where their optimism was at its height . |
| 7 | In terms of the 61 users in the sample who were interviewed , the years in which they first used heroin ranged from 1969 to 1984 . |
| 8 | Only one or two return to a river other than the one in which they first swam . |
| 9 | The two companies say they are confident they can comply with the licences , which they first applied for in March 1991 . |
| 10 | A further fifth of the men and a quarter of the women had married the person with whom they first had intercourse . |
| 11 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We certainly did n't pay what they first asked , ’ says Harry Coe . |
| 13 | One had overturned and they stared in amazement as a swarthy-featured European lashed out with a thick bamboo cane at what they first thought was a small animal collapsed between the shafts . |
| 14 | Which is why most women , when asked what they first look for in a man , reply ‘ Wit and humour ’ . |