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

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1 At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms .
2 The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be .
3 Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him .
4 Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ?
5 It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place .
6 Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’
7 Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ?
8 How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ?
9 He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place .
10 DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months .
11 Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord .
12 Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children .
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