Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe Ross should never had got married in the first place . |
2 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
3 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
4 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
5 | David Evans , the stand-off who plays centre for Wales , and Andrew Booth , his scrum-half partner , virtually sealed the result in the second half simply by appreciating what the Newport pair , David Phillips and Nigel Callard , had failed to grasp in the first — that kicking downwind is as good a way as any of gaining huge chunks of ground to keep the pressure on . |