Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 32 | ‘ If they 're sensible they do and their daughters will know what it 's all about and wo n't throw themselves at the first lad who looks at them . |
| 33 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 34 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 35 | Let's close shall we with a song of , of commitment really , it 's number four hundred in the er songs of fellowship and were gon na sing it to the first tune , oh call for us I believe , but let's look at it again . |
| 36 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 37 | Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward . |
| 38 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 39 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 40 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |
| 41 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |