Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’
2 The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records .
6 Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know .
7 Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first .
8 ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place .
9 He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time .
10 The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government .
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