Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 3 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 4 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | Batty and Speed although not finished products were reasonably good players when Wilko arrived and Bremnar was fairly consistently playing them in the first team . |