Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 2 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 4 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 5 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 6 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 7 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 8 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Where we 'll , where we 'll most probably get knocked out in the first round right . |
| 10 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 11 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 12 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 13 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 14 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 15 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 16 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 17 | Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half . |
| 18 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 19 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 20 | OMEGA products have performed well in the first half of the year achieving significant growth in volume compared with last year . |
| 21 | Still , Potter said that as ‘ sales , profitability and liquidity have progressed well in the first quarter and the outlook is good ’ , the board is recommending an increase in the final dividend to 1.5 pence from 1.4 pence per share last time . |