Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun] in the first " in BNC.

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1 So I put teddy in the first
2 Er yeah and I think people in the first term are quite attracted to it because it does n't seem to have much on the timetable erm
3 I had problems in the first half against Scotland .
4 That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’
5 As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level .
6 The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place .
7 Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place .
8 Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place .
9 She represented Austria in the first European Women 's Bridge Championship of 1935 ( winning it , and the next in 1936 ) .
10 Well you can never anticipate any breach of security , I mean that 's why you have security in the first place , in order to prevent things from happening .
11 The only reason I can see that you need players in the first teams is to see if they are playing well enough at a high level .
12 Myself and Mike White of NatWest will be driving an MR2 when we take part in the first Merseyside Challenge along with more than 100 other Merseysiders .
13 CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy .
14 The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place .
15 And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million .
16 The interviews identified a variety of entries into heroin use , based , first , on the relationship between the initiate and the person who introduced him or her to the drug , that is , the social ‘ how ? ’ ; and , secondly , on the reasons given by the users themselves as to why they took heroin in the first place , that is , the personal ‘ why ? ’ .
17 They fell 15% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity .
18 They fell 15pc in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity .
19 Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the
20 Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " .
21 Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business .
22 He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start .
23 A smaller catheter to enable us to study infants in the first two months of life is eagerly awaited , as this is the age group in which most oesophagopharyngeal reflux occurs .
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