Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 I 'd like to see them in the first division .
2 ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg .
3 If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place .
4 These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place .
5 Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’
6 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
7 And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) !
8 ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’
9 One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild .
10 This trap is the Devil 's second snare and is the one he sets if he fails to catch us with the first one .
11 The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly .
12 the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place .
13 ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place .
14 She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time .
15 She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place .
16 Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team .
17 Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months .
18 We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place .
19 But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund .
20 Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place .
21 She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter .
22 That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent
23 Why bother to do it in the first place ?
24 You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four
25 But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place .
26 After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place .
27 It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time .
28 In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband .
29 The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place .
30 Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter .
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