Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 2 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 3 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 4 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 5 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 6 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 7 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 8 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 9 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 10 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |