Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms . |
| 2 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 3 | You made the mess in the first place — remember ? ’ |
| 4 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 5 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 6 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 7 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 8 | He was the one who made the running in the first place , and I quite like him . ’ |
| 9 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 10 | Jack for one never forgave himself for encouraging the venture in the first place . |
| 11 | The first relates to whether a set of standard conditions should govern the contract in the first place , and the second ( in the case where the parties exchange their respective sets of standard conditions ) to the question of which set shall govern the contract between the parties ( the so-called " battle of the forms " ) . |
| 12 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 13 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 14 | ‘ I still do n't understand why the Milettis did n't try and stop-you handling the investigation in the first place if they feel so strongly about you . ’ |
| 15 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 16 | So you should make the decision in the first place . |
| 17 | Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in the first manned satellite , Stalin 's body was unceremoniously removed from the Moscow Mausoleum , counter revolutionaries attempted to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba and Scotland were drubbed 9–3 at Wembley . |
| 18 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 19 | That was the common ground between us ; the reason I got the job in the first place was because I could play The Faces ' ‘ Three Button Hand Me Down ’ . |
| 20 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 21 | Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place . |
| 22 | But what 's irritated the muscle in the first place is Your guess is as good as mine , cos it all works perfectly . |
| 23 | The failure of the crop of Blackacre will render it impossible to perform the contract in the first example , whereas in the latter case the contract can be fulfilled by supplying potatoes from any source . |
| 24 | We might not even have won the league in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 26 | Not only does Buffon try to relegate the pleasure of watching kittens at play to the level of a childish amusement , but he also suggests that this play is malicious because it involves acting out the killing of prey — the very skill for which mankind domesticated the cat in the first place . |
| 27 | Make a particular point of ensuring that one of these is in the hole by which the ferret entered the system in the first place . |
| 28 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 29 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |
| 30 | The Information Memorandum was the very thing which made the Purchaser interested in acquiring the Business in the first place . |