Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean would n't you be absolutely pig sick of them by the first of December never mind christmas . |
| 2 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 4 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 7 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 8 | ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’ |
| 9 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |