Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 2 | We 've got ta make sure we stay in the first division but |
| 3 | For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place . |
| 4 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 5 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 6 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 7 | So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice . |