Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
2 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
3 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
4 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
5 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
6 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |