Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
4 | Where we 'll , where we 'll most probably get knocked out in the first round right . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
7 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |