Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rainbow admits that I have told her the tale of the Gittel affair , and why Anya called down the curse in the first place . |
| 2 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , also expressed a preference for consultants who took responsibility for all parts of the search , bringing in the business in the first place and the , closely supervising the research . |
| 3 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 4 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 5 | Police believe the thief was the ‘ kitchen chemist ’ in Morgan hill whose ‘ heroin ’ sparked off the research in the first place . |
| 6 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 7 | When the kelp industry collapsed , the landlords , who had themselves set up the crofts in the first place , tried actively to get rid of them . |
| 8 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 9 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 10 | 4-0 up and with the pack apparantly in tremendous form it looked as if Gloucester would sew up the game in the first half . |
| 11 | Baden-Powell summed up the feeling in the first edition of Scouting for Boys in 1908 . |
| 12 | Mercer , who picked up the injury in the first 20 minutes , was substituted by Andy Goodway but bravely returned in the second half wearing a protective head guard . |
| 13 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 14 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ But why take up the challenge in the first place ? |
| 16 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |