Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 2 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |
| 3 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 5 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 7 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 8 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 9 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 10 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 11 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 12 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 13 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 14 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |