Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 2 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |
| 3 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 4 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 5 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 6 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 7 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |
| 8 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |