Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
2 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
3 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
4 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
5 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
6 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
7 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
8 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
9 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
10 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
11 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |