Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 3 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 6 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 8 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 9 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 10 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 11 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 12 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 13 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 14 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 16 | Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it ! |
| 17 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 18 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 19 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 22 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 23 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 24 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 25 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 26 | I did everything right in the first set . |
| 27 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 28 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 29 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 30 | We never got them out in the first place . |