Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in the first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business .
2 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
3 Do n't overdo it in the first few days .
4 But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan .
5 Two factors affect it in the first four years .
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