Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 2 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 3 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 4 | Only Sidey had ever played in the first team . |
| 5 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |