Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 2 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 3 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 4 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 5 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 6 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 7 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl . |
| 9 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 10 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 11 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 12 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 13 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 14 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |
| 15 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 16 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 17 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |