Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss .
2 We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss .
3 And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 .
4 He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida .
5 And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’
6 With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound .
7 He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia .
8 After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations .
9 Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada .
10 ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’
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