Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of us , an American student , a German woman and I , watched newsreels dating from before the First World War to about nineteen forty-eight . |
| 2 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |
| 3 | erm is not talking to in the first place |
| 4 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 5 | but people chuck all this stuff at you and you , Ooh what 's going on ? now if you 're not very very sure of what you 're working with in the first place |