Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 2 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 3 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 4 | Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half . |
| 5 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 6 | The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose . |
| 7 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
| 8 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 9 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 10 | In families where the mother tended to intervene often in the first observation period , the children did have longer quarrels and more frequent physical fights in the second observation period ( six months later ) than in families where she intervened less . |
| 11 | Anderton scored in the 26th minute after Barmby had headed Neil Ruddock 's cross back across the goal , delivered the corner that Teddy Sheringham converted after 44 minutes and then crossed for Barmby to score late in the first half . |
| 12 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 13 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 14 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 15 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |