Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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31 Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ .
32 In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap .
33 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
34 ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time .
35 One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed .
36 You lost them in the first place .
37 She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart .
38 She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice .
39 She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week .
40 Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place
41 I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’
42 Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process .
43 This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place .
44 Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list .
45 Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't
46 In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale .
47 If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place .
48 ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’
49 But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place
50 A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage .
51 We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space .
52 Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance .
53 After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’
54 Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road .
55 They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends .
56 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
57 He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year .
58 He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two .
59 Just then he noticed me for the first time .
60 It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight :
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