Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 2 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 3 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 4 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 5 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |