Example sentences of "[pron] be there [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 2 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 3 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 4 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 5 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 6 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 7 | The first step is to check what is there in the first place . |