Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 3 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 4 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 5 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 8 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
| 9 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |