Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 32 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 33 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 36 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 37 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 38 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 39 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 40 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 41 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 42 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 43 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 44 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 45 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 46 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 47 | Rickie seized Thessy 's can , pulled open its top , and hurled it messily after the first . |
| 48 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 49 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 50 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 51 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 52 | And also actually getting them there , themselves there in the first place is very difficult . |
| 53 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 54 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 55 | But I did n't think of anything else since the first moment I laid eyes on you , either . ’ |