Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 5 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 6 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 7 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 8 | Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid . |
| 9 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 10 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 12 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 13 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 14 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 15 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 16 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 17 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 18 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 19 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 22 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 23 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 24 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 25 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 26 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 27 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 28 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 29 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 30 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |