Example sentences of "it in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 32 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 33 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 34 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 35 | But it is certainly possible , at least , that he survived the Cross — if , indeed , it was he who was on it in the first place , rather than the substitute claimed by the Koran and by many early heresies . |
| 36 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 37 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 38 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 39 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 40 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 41 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 42 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 43 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 44 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 45 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 46 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 47 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 48 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 49 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 50 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 51 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 52 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 53 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 54 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 55 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 56 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 57 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 59 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 60 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |