Example sentences of "[adv] in the first [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 2 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 3 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 4 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 5 | President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really . |
| 6 | Twice in the first half he had a clear-cut chance to score , but both times opted for the spectacular overhead kick when a safe , sure-footed shot would have sufficed . |
| 7 | Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one . |
| 8 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 9 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |