Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place .
2 IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place .
3 ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd .
4 ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place .
5 I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place .
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