Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 3 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 4 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 7 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 8 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 9 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 10 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 11 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 12 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 13 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 15 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 16 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 17 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 19 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 20 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 21 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 22 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 23 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 24 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 25 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 27 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 28 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 30 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |