Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 2 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 3 | Dealers and artists complain now , but it should be remembered that they were happy to sell to Saatchi in the first place , and doubtless reaped the benefit of having placed work by their artists in such a prestigious collection in terms of increased prices . |
| 4 | I had heard that you were staying at the farm , ’ Claudine stated , condescending to look at Jenna for the first time . |
| 5 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 6 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 7 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 8 | While at university , Alison had the chance to go to America during the first summer vacation with BUNAC — British Universities North America Club . |
| 9 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 10 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 11 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 13 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 14 | ‘ No doubt that will all come out in court , also the fact that you refused to rehearse with Aschmann past the first week . |
| 15 | Senior counsel Edward Targowski had already proved that when he made such an effort to travel to Orkney for the first Children 's Hearing . |