Example sentences of "we [verb] they [prep] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | If they 're all on a par , we take them on a first come , first served basis . |
| 6 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |