Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 32 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 33 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 34 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 35 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 36 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 37 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 38 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 39 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 40 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 41 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 42 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 43 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 44 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 45 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 46 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 47 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 48 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |
| 49 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 50 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 51 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 52 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 53 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 54 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 55 | This trap is the Devil 's second snare and is the one he sets if he fails to catch us with the first one . |
| 56 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 57 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 58 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 59 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 60 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |