Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 2 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 3 | From continually chasing my tail in the first month and being late for everything , and always being in trouble in varying degrees , punctuality became second nature . |
| 4 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 5 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 6 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 7 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 8 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 9 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 10 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 11 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |
| 12 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 13 | Just ask Falkirk , who have produced some great stuff this season yet look increasingly likely to be playing their football in the First Division next season . |
| 14 | These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study . |
| 15 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 16 | Her opponent in the first round of the matchplay today is Ada O'Sullivan of Ireland . |
| 17 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 18 | Rijeka , who led 1–0 , may now lose their place in the First Division . |
| 19 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |
| 20 | No , I do n't want a lecture on the birds and the bees , I was just wondering where software companies find them , and how they learn their art in the first place ? |
| 21 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 22 | He believed that the human capacity for moral , social , and political adaptation had been stretched to its limit in the first century of the Industrial Revolution and fatally outstripped since . |
| 23 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 24 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 25 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 26 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 27 | I though Tyler was the best writer NME ever had and I 've since found out that him and Ian McDonald were the ones that gave the NME its style in the first place . |
| 28 | Thus , the reforms started a course which was the precise opposite of the emperor 's intention — moves to resist centralization , indeed , to secure greater decentralization , a process which ultimately led to the division of the empire in a Dual Monarchy , and ultimately its disintegration in the first World War . |
| 29 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 30 | The finale is an infinitely better movement that its companion in the First Symphony , perhaps because of Dvořák 's cuts , but also because its ideas ( notably the secondary theme ) are much more engaging and memorable . |