Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't think much of the first time really . |
| 2 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
| 3 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
| 4 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
| 5 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 6 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 7 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 8 | Did you say we can change this on the first screen custody ? |
| 9 | If you prefer to enter the finished garment measurements only , ( taken from a diagram in a magazine for instance ) you can put these in the first column and just enter zero each time in the ease column . |
| 10 | If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by |
| 11 | And I would say it 's on highways with your traffic on the access and on parking , and added that to the list , I did n't say that in the first instant . |
| 12 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |