Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 3 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 5 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 6 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 7 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 8 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 10 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 11 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |