Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the first " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 8 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 12 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 16 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 26 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 27 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 . |