Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 4 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 7 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 14 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
| 16 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 17 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 18 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 19 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 21 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 22 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 23 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 24 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 25 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 26 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 27 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 28 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 29 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 30 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |