Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 32 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 33 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 34 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 35 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 36 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 38 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 39 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 40 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 41 | ‘ If you could just drop us off at the first five-star hotel you come to . ’ |
| 42 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 43 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 44 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 45 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 46 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 47 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 48 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 49 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 50 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 51 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 52 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 53 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 54 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 55 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 56 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 58 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 59 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 60 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |