Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
| 2 | There had been plenty of evolutionists in the first half of the century , but the biologists among them had handled the subject with caution and some personal fear . |
| 3 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 4 | They do n't ask — though they should — why living matter groups itself into organisms in the first place . |
| 5 | That 's why Jeff brought you to Sardinia in the first place ! ’ |
| 6 | European idealism brought me into politics in the first place . |
| 7 | Why not give prisoners some reading material called Victim Life , about the suffering they inflicted on others in pursuit of the very ‘ unique needs and interests ’ that put them in prison in the first place ? |
| 8 | Some of the criticisms which are voiced by service planners and professionals when thinking about ordinary housing for long-term patients is that it is ‘ too expensive ’ , or that ‘ They ca n't cope on their own , ’ or that ‘ They 'll be affected by the same stresses and strains that put them in hospital in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 10 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 11 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | Vittorio Cassoni , erstwhile head of AT&T 's computer shop , and as such , the single individual most credited with giving the Open Software Foundation a reason to exist and dividing the Unix community into two opposing camps , has left Olivetti , who lent him to AT&T in the first place , to join Xerox Corp as executive vice president . |
| 14 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 15 | Who introduced him to gambling in the first place ? |
| 16 | Her disappointment over Jonathan , which had driven her to France in the first place , had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind . |
| 17 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 18 | He increased it to £76,000 in the first year , which was a modest 65 per cent . |
| 19 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 20 | We crave new discoveries and the attendant excitement and promise — that is what drives many of us into science in the first place . |