Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 2 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 3 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 4 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 5 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 6 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 7 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 8 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |
| 9 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |