Example sentences of "they [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 3 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 4 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 6 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 7 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 8 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 10 | They went in the first ambulance with the man with the facial injuries . |
| 11 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 12 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 13 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 14 | They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more . |
| 15 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |
| 16 | They have in the first year written 30,000 plans with a total of £900 million sums assured recording £100 million in premium income . |
| 17 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 18 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 19 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |