Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 32 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 33 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 34 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 35 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 36 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 37 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 38 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 39 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 40 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 41 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 42 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 43 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 44 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 45 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 46 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 47 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 48 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 49 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 50 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 51 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 52 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 53 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 54 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 55 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 56 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 57 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 58 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 59 | If clay granules are used , it would be advisable to dry them first in the sun , and then spread them as the first layer , before putting the other layers of peat and sand . |
| 60 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |