Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 3 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 4 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |
| 5 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 6 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |
| 7 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 8 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 9 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 10 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 11 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 12 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 13 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |