Example sentences of "by their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sent her younger son to a private school because the switch to comprehensives was such a mess and because he had a horror of a huge education factory after his primary school where everybody was known by their first name . |
| 2 | The band 's weakest ever single reached number 46 in the Gallup charts , an achievement supported by their first proper video in which they frolicked among hundreds of balloons . |
| 3 | He 's in close touch with his employees , knowing many of them by their first names . |
| 4 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |
| 5 | Nowadays , everyone seems to call everyone else by their first name , even though they 've never met them before . |
| 6 | Some interviewers address candidates by their first names thinking it encourages a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 7 | For example , as a teacher I assume the right to call my students by their first names ; they have to ask me if it 's permissible to use mine . |
| 8 | Women — like children — tend to be called by their first names where men would not be ; and they are also recipients of endearment terms like love , dear , honey , pet , hen and so on . |
| 9 | Barker and Greenfield were working-class lads who both arrived at Cambridge University in 1968 and were repelled by their first ever contact with the upper classes . |
| 10 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 11 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 12 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 13 | The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names . |
| 14 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
| 15 | A particularly striking difference was that when the staff addressed the men , it was by surnames , but when they addressed the women , it was by their first names . |
| 16 | They have to follow school routines , ca n't swear , smoke , or call the staff by their first names and we will use physical means of punishment if we have to , if they 're naughty . |
| 17 | ‘ I prefer ‘ Mr Wyatt ’ ; I only call friends by their first names . ’ |
| 18 | Clients were known by their first names only . |
| 19 | This is emphasised by the Burger King policy to call everyone by their first names . |
| 20 | If a manager was addressed by his surname and subordinates by their first names the power of the manager would increase because subordinates are no longer treated as equals . |
| 21 | Everybody is called by their first names ; why ? |
| 22 | It was composed , in fact , of quotes from lecturers identified only by their first names , who recalled difficult situations they had quite innocently — got into . |
| 23 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 24 | ‘ The Labour party were very sorely wounded by their first public defeat and ran a campaign claiming most people were in favour of the project , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Well , let's move on to Mohammed , and I should say that I 'm identifying each one of the people in the studio by their first names because it would be dangerous to identify them by their surnames . |