Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 2 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 3 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 4 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 5 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 6 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |