Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 5 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 6 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 14 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 19 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 20 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 21 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 22 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 23 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |