Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 2 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
| 3 | There had been plenty of evolutionists in the first half of the century , but the biologists among them had handled the subject with caution and some personal fear . |
| 4 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 5 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 6 | So St William 's invites itself for adoption as the first party to a partnership in a universal sense . |
| 7 | They do n't ask — though they should — why living matter groups itself into organisms in the first place . |
| 8 | That 's why Jeff brought you to Sardinia in the first place ! ’ |
| 9 | European idealism brought me into politics in the first place . |
| 10 | Pakistan 's 1992 London Test double , Lord 's and The Oval , was completed inside 10 sessions , and had something in common with the first of their five Test victories in England : in 1954 there was unease at England 's choice of players , Bedser and Bailey being rested , so complacent were the selectors in the face of this new Test entity from far away . |
| 11 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |
| 12 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 13 | Why not give prisoners some reading material called Victim Life , about the suffering they inflicted on others in pursuit of the very ‘ unique needs and interests ’ that put them in prison in the first place ? |
| 14 | Some of the criticisms which are voiced by service planners and professionals when thinking about ordinary housing for long-term patients is that it is ‘ too expensive ’ , or that ‘ They ca n't cope on their own , ’ or that ‘ They 'll be affected by the same stresses and strains that put them in hospital in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 16 | Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert are exhibiting works by Luciano Fabro , many of them on show for the first time . |
| 17 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 18 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 19 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 20 | She did n't feel comfortable and safe with anybody but Angus : he had n't tried to push her into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 21 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 24 | True , it might be a genuine enquiry , but it could be Nigel Steen relating him to Jacqui for the first time . |
| 25 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 26 | Vittorio Cassoni , erstwhile head of AT&T 's computer shop , and as such , the single individual most credited with giving the Open Software Foundation a reason to exist and dividing the Unix community into two opposing camps , has left Olivetti , who lent him to AT&T in the first place , to join Xerox Corp as executive vice president . |
| 27 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 28 | Who introduced him to gambling in the first place ? |
| 29 | Her disappointment over Jonathan , which had driven her to France in the first place , had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind . |
| 30 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |