Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 2 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 3 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 4 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 5 | ; Mij All twelve writers will come to a glitzy show biz type lunch at the Cafe Royal , hosted by David Frost , and that 's where we will know for the first time , who 's , who is the overall winner , the runner-up and the third place writer . |
| 6 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
| 7 | Now we can begin on the first phrase — the most important of the whole theme , for the success of everything else depends upon it . |
| 8 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |