Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 2 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 3 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 4 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
| 5 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 6 | The nine other sites are ’ — we 'll just put because they 're not in , writing this thing — ’ and they will open from the first of May nineteen ninety-one between nine and six p.m. each day of the week . |
| 7 | They will wither at the first frosts anyway , if they come ; and if they do n't … |
| 8 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |