Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 32 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 33 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 34 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 35 | ‘ I was against it from the first . |
| 36 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 37 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 38 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |
| 39 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 40 | ‘ Good , ’ said the corporal , ‘ because we 're always gentle with you on the first day . ’ |
| 41 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 42 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 43 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 44 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 45 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
| 46 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 47 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 48 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 49 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 50 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 51 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 52 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 53 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 54 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 55 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 56 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 57 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 58 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 59 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 60 | Others were with us for the first time — students from the Darlington area . |