Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 3 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 4 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 7 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 8 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 9 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 10 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 11 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 12 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 13 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 14 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 16 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 17 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 18 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 19 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 20 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 21 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 22 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 23 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 24 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 25 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 26 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 27 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 28 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 29 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 30 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |