Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 2 | " May I have the first dance , Janet ? " |
| 3 | No word spoken before he said : " May I have the first dance ? " |
| 4 | Can I have the first part ? |
| 5 | Could I have the first question please ? |
| 6 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 7 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 8 | ‘ When do you want the first payment ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you want the first team or the Reserves , ’ it adds . |
| 10 | Do n't you know the first thing about seduction ? ’ |
| 11 | They go up to Did you do the first part of it ? |
| 12 | Did n't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position ? |
| 13 | Do you remember the first year when we went and everybody went and put notice in front ? |
| 14 | D' you remember the first time ? ’ |
| 15 | GUIL : ( Tensed up by this rambling ) Do you remember the first thing that happened today ? |
| 16 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 17 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 18 | What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished . |
| 19 | Did she find the first reward insufficient and return again and again for more bites at this financially rewarding cherry ? |
| 20 | Can we have the first question again please ? |
| 21 | The Council wants to make out that you 've got to let them have the first option |
| 22 | Let him make the first move . |
| 23 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 24 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 25 | Will he make the first team or will be another warmer for the subs bench ? |
| 26 | How could he forget the first daemon he had combatted in full knowledge of its nature ? |
| 27 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |