Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [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 settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 4 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 5 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 6 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 10 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 11 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |