Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels .
2 We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss .
3 We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss .
4 And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 .
5 NOW THAT the Second World of formerly communist countries is falling over itself to join the First World , the name ‘ Third World ’ suits the rest of the planet less well than ever .
6 Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation .
7 Er , she 's been at the , well something I did n't know , she 's been at the depot the shortest time of all our indoor , but she 's the first one to get the first day to , percent , , so that 's good .
8 He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida .
9 And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’
10 With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound .
11 He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia .
12 After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations .
13 Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance .
14 If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move .
15 She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move .
16 Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada .
17 But that amendment will do nothing to change the first part of the Clause ...
18 It is up to them to make the first move . ’
19 ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’
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