Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 2 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 3 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 4 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 5 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 8 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 10 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |