Example sentences of "[verb] her in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
2 ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’
3 A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house .
4 It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place .
5 The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place .
6 Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place .
7 As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place .
8 It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place .
9 Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ?
10 Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward .
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