Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] in [art] first " in BNC.

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1 So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
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