Example sentences of "think [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 3 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 4 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 5 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |