Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 2 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 3 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 4 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 5 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |