Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 3 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 4 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 6 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 7 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 13 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 14 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 15 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 16 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 17 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 18 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 20 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 21 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 23 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 24 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |