Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 2 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 3 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 4 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 5 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 6 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 7 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 8 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 9 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |