Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 5 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 7 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 8 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 9 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 10 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |
| 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 . |