Example sentences of "be taken [adv] [prep] [art] 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 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
6 | 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 . |
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 . |
11 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |