| One distinguished editor, who was on first-name terms with a minister, found an unusual way out of this predicament. |
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| Back then it was just a few hundred ladies and we were practically on first-name terms. |
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| We are on first-name terms with many of the staff, who have been great and there are some really big personalities among them. |
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| But seeing as though you're reading this, you're probably already on first-name terms with office skiving. |
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| He might have seized power in a military coup and immediately cancelled elections, but hey, he's a first-name kind of guy. |
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| In the end, I had to forgo the dream of ivy-covered buildings and slouchy young men on a first-name basis with Kierkegaard. |
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| We're on a first-name basis with a lot of people and we know who's who in the community. |
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| Orders were made as suggestions and officers and men were on first-name terms. |
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| I marvelled as he name-checked the celebrities with whom he was on first-name terms. |
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| Voters are on a first-name basis with candidates because of it. |
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| Not only are we on a first-name basis with all the right researchers in the accessibility field, but we've got verbal agreements with some of them. |
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| Nowadays he is on first-name terms with at least half of his audience. |
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| I find it so much more pleasant to work with people on first-name terms. |
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| From a methodological point of view, it will be interesting to test the effect of first-name similarity in a computer-mediated context. |
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| The shock measures would have seen former notorious inmates like Charles Bronson and Stephanie Slater kidnapper Michael Sams treated on first-name terms by Birmingham guards. |
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