Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 4 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 5 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 6 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 7 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 9 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 10 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 12 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 13 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 14 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 15 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 16 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 17 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 18 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 19 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 20 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 21 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 22 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 23 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 24 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 25 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 26 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 27 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 28 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 29 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 30 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |