Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 3 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 4 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 5 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 6 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 8 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 9 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 10 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 12 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 13 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 14 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 15 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 16 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 17 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 18 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 19 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 20 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 21 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 22 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 23 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 26 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 27 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 28 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 29 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 30 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |