Example sentences of "be take [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 2 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 3 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 4 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 5 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
| 6 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 7 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 8 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 9 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 10 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |