Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 2 | That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins . |
| 3 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 4 | It nearly happened in the first Test . |
| 5 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 6 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 7 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 8 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 9 | For the next four months the Prime Minister 's horse still has to be kept in Quarantine in Moscow and in London , Then finally John Majors will get the birthday present he never really wanted in the first place . |
| 10 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 11 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 12 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 13 | Meanwhile Wordsworth wrote all the poems , with the exception of Tintern Abbey , which subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 14 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 15 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |