Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 3 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 4 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 5 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 6 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 7 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 8 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 9 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 10 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 11 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 12 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |
| 13 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 14 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 16 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 17 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |
| 18 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 19 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 20 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 21 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 22 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 23 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 24 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 25 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 26 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |