Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 32 | They 'll they and they you 'll see them going mm not that not that one back to the first I do n't know and then they get the dictionary out . |
| 33 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
| 35 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 36 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 37 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 38 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 39 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 40 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 41 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 43 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 44 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 45 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 46 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 47 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 48 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 49 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 50 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 51 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 52 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 53 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 54 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 55 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 56 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 57 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 58 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 59 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 60 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |