Example sentences of "tell [pron] the first " in BNC.

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1 I told you the first Michele had it specially made .
2 Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year !
3 She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour .
4 ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’
5 Well , can I tell you the first one we went to we went to get food and there was none left !
6 ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’
7 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time .
8 ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) .
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