Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 3 | The earliest surviving portraits are almost exclusively of the first century BC . |
| 4 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 5 | Three routes were out forward for the first section and two for the southern section . |
| 6 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 7 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 8 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 9 | Now aged 31 , Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth . |
| 10 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |