Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 2 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 3 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 4 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 6 | You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four |
| 7 | Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter . |