Example sentences of "be there [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Headingley saw a cracking match , and anyone lucky enough to be there on the first day is unlikely to have forgotten it .
2 Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place .
3 Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ?
4 And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place .
5 The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place .
6 I know , you would n't have been there in the first place .
7 Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place .
8 Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’
9 Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound .
10 The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two .
11 The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place .
12 The first step is to check what is there in the first place .
13 Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place .
14 Linford was there for the first time .
15 Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time .
16 This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant .
17 But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war .
18 So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place .
19 Why do you think the body was there in the first place ?
20 Erm you know , and these achievements , he 's not saying that you know re rev revolution 's the way forward , he 's actually saying look what 's happened before under the system that existed er previously , er well it actually existed , you know , at the time he was talking about , there does seem to be an effort by the peasants erm you know to , to improve their lot and therefore wha while he cites revolution in a way you , you can argue it is a bit strange because they seem to be , according to him , have improved their lot under the system that was there in the first place , erm
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