Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 3 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 4 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 5 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 6 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 8 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 9 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 10 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
| 12 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 13 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 15 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 16 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 17 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 18 | Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid . |
| 19 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 20 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 21 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 22 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 23 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 24 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 25 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 26 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 27 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 28 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |