Example sentences of "come [adv] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 3 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 5 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 6 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 7 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 8 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 9 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 10 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 11 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 12 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |