Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 3 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 6 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 7 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | 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 , . ’ |
| 9 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |