Example sentences of "there [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There during the first half of the century , as in other armies , notably that of France , regiments were in effect the property of their colonels . |
| 2 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 3 | I can take it over there for the first service which is free anyway and I can take it back to Swansea for the others ca n't I ? |
| 4 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 5 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 6 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 7 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 8 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 9 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 10 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 11 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 13 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 14 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 16 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 17 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 18 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 19 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 20 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 21 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 22 | And of course , there in the first bar of the Third Act is the harmonic kernel of Puccini 's entire output , the tritone , oscillating on the basses between A and E flat . |
| 23 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 24 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 25 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 26 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 27 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 28 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 29 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 30 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |