Example sentences of "say [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 2 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 3 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 4 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 5 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 6 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 7 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 8 | The specific effect of using a colon instead of a semicolon is to suggest that what comes next is a more specific example , or an explanation , of what was said in the first sentence . |
| 9 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 10 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 11 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 12 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 13 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 14 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 15 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 16 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 17 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 18 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 19 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 20 | You 've shown that you 've moved erm , substantially towards variable debt but there is obviously an outburst currency impact , you said in the first half . |
| 21 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 22 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 23 | said in the first place ! |
| 24 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 25 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 26 | The commission 's chair , Peter Tucker , said at the first session on Nov. 13 that it would consider the issue of single- or multiparty forms of government . |
| 27 | the commentary must say for the first time what had , nonetheless , already been said [ by the original text ] and must tirelessly repeat what had never been said [ by other commentators ] . |
| 28 | Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’ |