Example sentences of "to [pron] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
2 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
3 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
4 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
5 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
6 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
7 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
8 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
9 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
10 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
11 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
12 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
13 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
14 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
15 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
16 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
17 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
18 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
19 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
20 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
21 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
22 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
23 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
24 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
25 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |