Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
2 | The former skipper had the misfortune of conceding the own-goal which gave Swindon a play-off victory at Wembley two years ago but he still led the team out in the First Division the next season . |
3 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
4 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
5 | But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term . |
6 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
7 | Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half . |
8 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
9 | I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place . |
10 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
11 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
12 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |
13 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
14 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
15 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
16 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |