Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 2 | No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second . |
| 3 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 4 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 5 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 7 | They blended together from the first and there can be no doubt that Harry 's forceful play on the right wing was one of the prime reasons why Simpson was able to crack in so many goals . |
| 8 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 9 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 10 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |