Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 2 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 6 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 7 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 8 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 9 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 10 | He fell heavily when 4–1 down in the first set , needed several minutes of treatment before deciding to carry on , lost the first set , but then came back to win the next two — all the time nursing his knee with an ice-pack between games . |
| 11 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 12 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 13 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 14 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 15 | Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory . |
| 16 | Miss Fletcher was 0–2 , down in the first set before taking ten games in a row and going on to retain her title . |
| 17 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 18 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 19 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 20 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 21 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 22 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 25 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 26 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 27 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 28 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 29 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 30 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |