Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 2 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 3 | I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 7 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 8 | The tale of two young men , friends in boyhood , who serve together in the First World War may sound like something Rolf Harris would sing about , but there 's more to it than that . |
| 9 | obviously but I think you need clearly in the first instance to use that |
| 10 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think we did well in the first game at Ibrox , despite the result . |
| 12 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 13 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 14 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 15 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 16 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 17 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 18 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 19 | Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half . |