Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 3 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 4 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 12 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 13 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 15 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 16 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 17 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 18 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 19 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 29 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 30 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |