Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 2 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 3 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 4 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 5 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 6 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |