Example sentences of "say [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 2 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 3 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 11 | It says in the first b , yes well , mm , it does n't make sense , because they ca n't have it after seventy one can they ? er , initially . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |
| 16 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 17 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 18 | She remembered Elizabeth saying in the first weeks of her engagement to Alex , ‘ Do you know , you 're a rather intimidating couple ? ’ and she had been tempted to reply , ‘ Oh , we are , we are . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 21 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | No , it said for the first wash it 's a very strong rinse |
| 24 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 25 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 26 | On July 19 the Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Muneo Suzuki , said during the first official government visit to South Africa since 1969 that Japan was considering lifting economic sanctions , having lifted its ban on tourism and non-economic sanctions in June [ see p. 38270 ] . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 29 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 30 | 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 . |