Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 2 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 5 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 6 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 7 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 8 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 9 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 10 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 11 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 12 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 13 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 14 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 16 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 17 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 19 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 20 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |