Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 61 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 62 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 63 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 64 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 65 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 66 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 67 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 68 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 69 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 70 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 71 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 72 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 73 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 74 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 75 | If clay granules are used , it would be advisable to dry them first in the sun , and then spread them as the first layer , before putting the other layers of peat and sand . |
| 76 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 77 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 78 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 79 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 80 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 81 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 82 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 83 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 84 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 85 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 86 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 87 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 88 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 89 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 90 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |