Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these anthropologists chose to investigate geographically peripheral communities , so we chose in the first instance to investigate communities that are marginal in a different sense . |
| 2 | ‘ I would love to see how Leeds would handle the situation if we scored in the first minute , as they did at Ibrox . ’ |
| 3 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 4 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 5 | As we stated in the first chapter of this book , the developmental task of marriage is to convert the unconscious choice of partner into a conscious commitment . |