Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 2 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 3 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 4 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 5 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 6 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 7 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 8 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 10 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 13 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 15 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | Nick actually captained the Palace on occasions in Walker 's absence , and he went on to play regularly for us throughout the first three wartime seasons , before his duties in the Royal Navy prevented him continuing his Palace career . |
| 17 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 18 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |
| 19 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |