Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in the first " in BNC.

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1 Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’
4 With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful .
5 Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me .
6 Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite .
7 ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’
8 ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’
9 ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’
10 Portadown piled them up in the first half .
11 I did everything right in the first set .
12 Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place !
13 ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round .
14 We never got them out in the first place .
15 ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly .
16 The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class .
17 She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ?
18 She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’
19 I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round .
20 If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place .
21 Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ?
22 He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well .
23 By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine .
24 After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 .
25 For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place .
26 love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place .
27 It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place .
28 He never wanted me there in the first place .
29 The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them .
30 I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’
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