Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 2 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 3 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 4 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 5 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 6 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 7 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 8 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 9 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 10 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 11 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 12 | Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty . |
| 13 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 14 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 15 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 16 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 17 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 18 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 19 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 20 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 22 | Murphy wanted her to stay by the first fire of the autumn and be waiting there with the tea table , as Aunt Emily had always done ; but he knew , after just over two months of Alexandra 's rule , that it was pointless even to look his disapproval . |
| 23 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |