Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 2 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 3 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 4 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 5 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 6 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 7 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 8 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 9 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 10 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 11 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 12 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 13 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 14 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 15 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 16 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 17 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 18 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 19 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 20 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 21 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 22 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 24 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 25 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 26 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 27 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 28 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 29 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 30 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |