Example sentences of "you in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 2 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 3 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 4 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 5 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 6 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 7 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 9 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 10 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 11 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 12 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 14 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 15 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 17 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |
| 18 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |