Example sentences of "[prep] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 2 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
| 3 | It 's like in the first year the first year of the three year period you 've got an incentive , |
| 4 | However , if this is accepted , then we end up again with the concept of a particular as some kind of a temporally extended " peg " for qualities — a view which the theory was directed against in the first instance . |
| 5 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 6 | This selection also includes several episodes not dealt with in the first half of this book , but which are an integral part of El Cid 's legend . |
| 7 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 8 | Basic genetic analysis and chromosome theory are dealt with in the first year , while biochemical , molecular and physiological aspects of gene action are emphasised in the second year . |
| 9 | but people chuck all this stuff at you and you , Ooh what 's going on ? now if you 're not very very sure of what you 're working with in the first place |
| 10 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 11 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 12 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 13 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Rough Collie Rescue ( London and South East ) started an appeal , with £200 of their own money , named the ‘ Robbie Fund ’ to help Grace McNeil afford the court costs she should never have been liable for in the first place . |
| 15 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 16 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 17 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 18 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 19 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 20 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 21 | How much did we buy Kerslake for in the first place ? |
| 22 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 23 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 24 | Another example is the numbfish which Pliny the Elder wrote about in the first century AD . |
| 25 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 26 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , does anybody know where all that cotton comes from in the first place ? ’ |
| 29 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 30 | If crime is learned from others ( as differential association proposes ) where did it come from in the first place ? |