Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 5 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 6 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 7 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 8 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 9 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 10 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 11 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 12 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 13 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 14 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 15 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 16 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 19 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 20 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 21 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 22 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 23 | I did everything right in the first set . |
| 24 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 25 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 26 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 27 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 28 | Rickie seized Thessy 's can , pulled open its top , and hurled it messily after the first . |