Example sentences of "[pron] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 2 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 3 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 4 | This improved the price-competitiveness of Turkish exports , which in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 10 per cent over the previous year , with Germany continuing as their largest single-country market . |
| 5 | It 's a two year project , which in the first year includes three large seminars and the production of a number of booklets together with a training video . |
| 6 | An initial Ir £20m is to be invested in the plant at Leixit in County Kildare , which in the first phase will produce computer systems . |
| 7 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 8 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 9 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 10 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 11 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 12 | My title is intended to bring to your mind H V Morton , Henry Vollam Morton ( 1892–1979 ) , who in the first half of this century wrote one of the most popular series of travel books ever . |
| 13 | Much interest focused on the attitude of interim Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy , who in the first round had supported the veteran nationalist Jacques Rabemananjara rather than Zafy . |
| 14 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 15 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 16 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 17 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 18 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 19 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 20 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 22 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 23 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 24 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 25 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 27 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 28 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 29 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 30 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |