Example sentences of "[prep] us [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were with us for the first time — students from the Darlington area . |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that , if the Government were to introduce proposals to toughen up sentencing policy — to impose stiffer sentences — we could look forward to Opposition Members agreeing with us for the first time ? |
| 3 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
| 4 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |
| 5 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 6 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 7 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 8 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 9 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
| 10 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 11 | Nick actually captained the Palace on occasions in Walker 's absence , and he went on to play regularly for us throughout the first three wartime seasons , before his duties in the Royal Navy prevented him continuing his Palace career . |
| 12 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |