Example sentences of "you [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 2 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 4 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 5 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 6 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 7 | He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of science , and you as the first novelist of science . ’ |
| 8 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 9 | Finally , to help you formulate your business plans and guide you through the first years , The Institute of Business counsellors is offering ten business counselling sessions for the first three prize winners and five each for the three runners-up . |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 12 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 13 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 14 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 15 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 16 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 17 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 19 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 20 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 21 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 22 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 23 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 25 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 26 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 28 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |
| 29 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 30 | So we 'll pop you on the first one tomorrow . ’ |