Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 3 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 4 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 5 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 6 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 7 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 8 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 9 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 10 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 11 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 12 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 13 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 15 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 16 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 17 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 18 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 19 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 20 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |
| 21 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 22 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 23 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 25 | ‘ If you could just drop us off at the first five-star hotel you come to . ’ |
| 26 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 27 | 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 ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |