Example sentences of "[vb past] it in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 2 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 3 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 4 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 5 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 6 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 7 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 8 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 9 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 10 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 11 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 12 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 13 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 15 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 17 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 18 | If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place . |
| 19 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |