Example sentences of "we in the first " in BNC.

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1 They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half .
2 The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round .
3 We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted .
4 But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’
5 ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down .
6 First , how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk , without consulting us in the first place .
7 Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve .
8 Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres .
9 He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written .
10 He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies .
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