Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 3 | I am not talking here about your work surfaces , or work triangles or the general space/work efficiency of your kitchen , but rather if you could use your kitchen as more of a family room-the sort of room which friends as well as family tend to migrate to at the first available opportunity . |
| 4 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 5 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 6 | Erm and much of the point he 's making I think he 's covering , if you look closely , the resolution that we put , I should at this stage say I do accept the er the Charles suggested to start with into the first two lines . |