Example sentences of "we [vb past] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we need to start with the ‘ givens ’ of the situation — the objective features of the predicament which we reviewed in the first part of the last chapter . |
| 2 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 3 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 4 | In P3/T1 we pivoted in the first column because |
| 5 | No I do n't think so , everybody 's disappointed , especially after the way we played in the first half , but erm on our second half performance , I suppose we can just count ourselves lucky we come away with a point . |
| 6 | It has , not surprisingly , been at the forefront of critical enterprises which have considered literature 's different relations with history that we explored in the first chapter . |
| 7 | ‘ I would love to see how Leeds would handle the situation if we scored in the first minute , as they did at Ibrox . ’ |
| 8 | As we stated in the first chapter of this book , the developmental task of marriage is to convert the unconscious choice of partner into a conscious commitment . |
| 9 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |
| 10 | The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction . |
| 11 | As these anthropologists chose to investigate geographically peripheral communities , so we chose in the first instance to investigate communities that are marginal in a different sense . |
| 12 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 13 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 14 | We saw in the first chapter how we can understand more about ourselves according to our type of personality . |
| 15 | So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice . |
| 16 | Again we discussed in the first chapter a little of why such questions get asked at this stage . |
| 17 | This is one way of describing the situation ; we prefer however to distinguish between the Justice Model outlined in the previous section and a different movement which shares only part of the Justice Model agenda : the ideology of ‘ law and order ’ we discussed in the first chapter . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 19 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 20 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |