Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 3 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 4 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 5 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 6 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 8 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 9 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 10 | If they 're all on a par , we take them on a first come , first served basis . |
| 11 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 12 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |