Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
3 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
4 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
6 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
8 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
9 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
10 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
11 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
12 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
13 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
14 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
15 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
16 | Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it ! |
17 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
18 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
19 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
20 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
21 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
22 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
23 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
24 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
25 | We never got them out in the first place . |
26 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
27 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
28 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
29 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
30 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |