Example sentences of "said [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 7 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 8 | said in the first place ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |