Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 3 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 4 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 5 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 6 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 7 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |
| 8 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 9 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 10 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 11 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 12 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 13 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 14 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 15 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |