Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 2 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 3 | That way you see what it was you liked in the first place , and you see it fresh and clean again — like new . |
| 4 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 5 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 6 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 7 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 8 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 9 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |