Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
2 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
3 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
4 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
5 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
6 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
7 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
8 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
9 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
10 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
11 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
12 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
13 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
14 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
15 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
16 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
17 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
18 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
19 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
20 | This trap is the Devil 's second snare and is the one he sets if he fails to catch us with the first one . |
21 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
22 | You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four |
23 | Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter . |