Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.

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1 Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place .
2 The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy .
3 all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P .
4 ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it .
5 At the time she was lodging with two ladies who had lost their brother in the First World War .
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