Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 4 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 5 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 6 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 7 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 8 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 9 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 10 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 11 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
| 12 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 13 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 14 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 15 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 16 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 17 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 18 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 19 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 20 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 21 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 22 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |