Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 2 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 3 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 4 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 5 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 6 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 7 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 8 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 9 | and let me deal with the first form ? |
| 10 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 11 | Let us begin with the first step in the above argument . |
| 12 | Let us look at the first problem first . |
| 13 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 14 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 15 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 16 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |
| 18 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 19 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 20 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 21 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 22 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 23 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 24 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 25 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 26 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 27 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 28 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 30 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |