Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 2 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 3 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 4 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 6 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 7 | You were nice in the first light . |
| 8 | You were loose in the first chukka , so were you , Patrick . ’ |
| 9 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 10 | ‘ The necessary components of love , my darling , are apparently as dark and fathomless as the reasons we 're alive in the first place . |
| 11 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 12 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 13 | They were successful in the first aim by concentrating on Mr Smith 's shadow budget and re-exploding the tax bombshell . |
| 14 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 15 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 16 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 17 | In order to identify any broad trends in the responses and to enable meaningful statistical information to be compiled , it was necessary in the first instance to assign answers to one of a limited number of categories . |
| 18 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |
| 19 | On June 2 Stefano Rodota , president of the PDS and former Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , resigned from both posts after he was unsuccessful in the first four ballots for Speaker . |
| 20 | What is necessary in the first instance is a shift in the surrounding social relations and economic conditions . |