Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 2 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 3 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 4 | follow the detailed reasoning or argument ; 2. note what you missed at the first reading ; 3. if you own the book , you may mark key points ; and 4. if you do n't own the book , note key points . |
| 5 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 6 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 8 | What he got in the first |