Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 2 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 3 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 4 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 5 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 6 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |
| 8 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 9 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 10 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 11 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 12 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 13 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 14 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 16 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 17 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 18 | The overiding feeling among local people is one of relief that the party is over — what many are asking though , is why it was allowed it to start in the first place . |
| 19 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 20 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 21 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 22 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 23 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 25 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 26 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |