Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Do you want the first team or the Reserves , ’ it adds . |
| 32 | Do you remember the first year when we went and everybody went and put notice in front ? |
| 33 | GUIL : ( Tensed up by this rambling ) Do you remember the first thing that happened today ? |
| 34 | Did she find the first reward insufficient and return again and again for more bites at this financially rewarding cherry ? |
| 35 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 36 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 37 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 38 | the problem is with how the is conducted who gets the first bite ? |
| 39 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
| 40 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 41 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 42 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 43 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |