Example sentences of "us [verb] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place .
2 During that sequence Vic made full appearances throughout our promotion season of 1960–61 , thus helping us to progress for the first time in forty years , while a feature of his game in that successful season was the accurate and powerful throw he developed , by which he frequently set up a fast Palace counter-attack .
3 Let us look at the first problem first .
4 Let us begin with the first step in the above argument .
5 ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’
6 This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats .
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