Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 2 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 3 | It nearly happened in the first Test . |
| 4 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 5 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 6 | For the next four months the Prime Minister 's horse still has to be kept in Quarantine in Moscow and in London , Then finally John Majors will get the birthday present he never really wanted in the first place . |
| 7 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 8 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 9 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile Wordsworth wrote all the poems , with the exception of Tintern Abbey , which subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 11 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 12 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |