Example sentences of "taken [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place .
2 They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place .
3 They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place .
4 But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second .
5 The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid .
6 And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner .
7 With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead .
8 Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself .
9 I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds .
10 The girls were awakened and taken across in the first convoy , the boys in the next .
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