Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 3 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 4 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 5 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 6 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 7 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 8 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 10 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 11 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 13 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 14 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 15 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 16 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 17 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 18 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 19 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 20 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 21 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 22 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 23 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 24 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 25 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 26 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 27 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 28 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 30 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |