Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 32 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 33 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
| 34 | You never wanted him in the first place . ’ |
| 35 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |