Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it in the first " in BNC.

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1 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
2 ( Have I got it in the first place ?
3 I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago .
4 I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage .
5 Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression .
6 Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ .
7 Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place .
8 One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed .
9 Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place
10 I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’
11 Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process .
12 If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place .
13 And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place .
14 Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance .
15 But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan .
16 It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight :
17 I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place .
18 His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place .
19 But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem .
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