Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 3 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 4 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 6 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 7 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 8 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 9 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 10 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 11 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 12 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 13 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 14 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 15 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 16 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 18 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 20 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 21 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |
| 22 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 23 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 24 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 25 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 26 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 27 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 28 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 29 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 30 | On Tuesday , they embark on the first of their midweek league fixtures , at home to Alresford with a 6 p.m. kick-off . |