Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 2 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 3 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 4 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 5 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |