Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] 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 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 13 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |