Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 4 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You got to get it out to get it ordered by the first week of January . |
| 8 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 9 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 10 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 11 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |