Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 2 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 3 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 4 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |
| 5 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 7 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 9 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 10 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 11 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |