Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 3 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 4 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 5 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 6 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 7 | Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’ |
| 8 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 9 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 10 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 11 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |