Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 4 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 5 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 6 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 7 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 8 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 9 | No you 're not but in fact studies show after about the first ten minutes , people are n't absorbing much anyway |
| 10 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 11 | Three of us , an American student , a German woman and I , watched newsreels dating from before the First World War to about nineteen forty-eight . |
| 12 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 13 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 14 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 15 | Yeah this is what wan na I I just got onto like the first lesson of it . |
| 16 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 17 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 18 | Erm and much of the point he 's making I think he 's covering , if you look closely , the resolution that we put , I should at this stage say I do accept the er the Charles suggested to start with into the first two lines . |
| 19 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 20 | This selection also includes several episodes not dealt with in the first half of this book , but which are an integral part of El Cid 's legend . |
| 21 | Basic genetic analysis and chromosome theory are dealt with in the first year , while biochemical , molecular and physiological aspects of gene action are emphasised in the second year . |
| 22 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |
| 23 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 24 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 25 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |
| 26 | As the speed is increased , the damping becomes less and you will be able to decide on a reasonable limit to keep to for the first half hour . |
| 27 | This , incidentally , is officially referred to as the first launch of the programme although it was the second . |
| 28 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 29 | The existence in the area of a cave complex which functioned as a rebel base is referred to by the First Century AD Jewish historian , Flavius Josephus . |
| 30 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |