Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 3 | 2 Answer the questions that the journalist will need to ask in the first paragraph of the release and develop the various points in order of importance . |
| 4 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 5 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 6 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 7 | I understand that you are holding the PAL masters for both parts , which we would like to use for the first run of this title , to get a better quality duplication . |
| 8 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 9 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll have to jump from the first floor , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 11 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 12 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 13 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 14 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 15 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 16 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 17 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 18 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 19 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 20 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 21 | Without John I doubt is any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 22 | Without John I doubt if any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 23 | I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen . |
| 24 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 25 | Ideally , take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight . |
| 26 | And I think originally it may have run in the first year both at easter and at August . |
| 27 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 28 | I should never have started in the first place . |
| 29 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
| 30 | How on earth would that have happened in the first instance ? |