Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 3 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 4 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 5 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 7 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 8 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 9 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 10 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 11 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 12 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 13 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 14 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 15 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 16 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 17 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 18 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 19 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 21 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 22 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | Sitting beside her in the first half were the managing director of Digital Equipment Mr Geoffrey Shingles , and the Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Trust Professor Gerald Manners ; and in the second Mr Richard Martin director of Corporate Affairs at Digital , and Mr Jeremy Isaacs the Director of the Royal Opera House . |
| 25 | How did you come across her in the first place ? ’ |
| 26 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 27 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |