Example sentences of "[pron] to him [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 2 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 3 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 4 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 5 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 6 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |