Example sentences of "[vb pp] there [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 2 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 3 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 4 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 5 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 6 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 8 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ Or what is she never went there in the first place ? ’ |