Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 2 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 4 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 5 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |